The end of the school year typically days of celebrations and send-offs will be filled instead with more high-stakes testing and weighty decisions about summer school for thousands of third grade students under Tennessee s new learning and retention law.
Schools will get preliminary scores Friday from state reading tests, kicking off a busy few days of analysis and communication with third-grade parents about what the results mean.
Saturday s event marked third year of celebrating. Author: Local 24 Staff (Local 24) Published: 11:10 PM CDT May 8, 2021 Updated: 11:10 PM CDT May 8, 2021
MEMPHIS, Tenn. City leaders and family members gathered to celebrate the 96th anniversary of Tom Lee s heroic rescue on the Mississippi River Saturday afternoon.
The event was hosted by the Memphis River Parks partnership on the riverfront in Downtown Memphis.
Congressman Steven Cohen spoke at the event.
The group remembered Tom Lee s heroics and heard special spoken word performance I raised my daughter on this, Aria is going to know how to be involved and I just feel like ya know I need to be involved for her to see that, said Charmeal Neely-Alexander, great niece of Tom Lee. So things are working out for Tom Lee 96 years later there are some rarely good people in Memphis and I try to make sure I come into contact with them.