One of the main architects of the Memphis-Shelby County schools takeover is looking to capitalize on Congressional ...

On April 22, the House and Senate approved legislation effectively stripping power from the locally elected school board of Tennessee's largest district.

A candidate for the Memphis school board was convicted on a felony drug charge while serving as a city police officer two decades ago, court records show. T.L. Harris, who is running in the Democratic ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Tennessee Republicans have passed an unprecedented intervention of the Memphis-Shelby County ...

Board Chair Natalie McKinney sponsored the resolution Tuesday to hire a lawyer to challenge the state takeover legislation. (Larry McCormack for Chalkbeat) The Memphis-Shelby County school board voted ...

Shelby County commissioners voted to take money from county reserve funds to pay the possible cost of suing the state over a ...