Memphis district leaders have announced that, after six years and $12 million, they are pulling the plug on their closely watched experiment to put schoolwide improvement models in every public ...

Immigrant communities in Memphis are increasingly concerned as ICE activity rises and proposed legislation threatens undocumented students' access to public schools.

The Memphis landscape epitomizes what a growing number of educators and public officials describe as portfolio management: when an array of operators—a traditional district, the state, charter ...

Building on the model that revitalized Memphis, Tenn., schools, a group of Catholic investors is taking over 16 elementary schools in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

Communities In Schools Prepares to Be Present in 333 New Schools This Year, Expanding Reach and Supports for Nearly 200,000 K-12 Students PR Newswire Tue, Aug 13, 2024, 5:00 AM 4 min read ...

If they can erase the decisions of an elected school board in Memphis, they can and will do the same across Tennessee. 4 ways Tennessee lawmakers thwarted the will of local communities ...

Three Memphis schools will exit the state-run Achievement School District and join the Tennessee Public Charter School Commission, a first for schools in the state's turnaround efforts.

Significant changes are underway in Memphis’ educational landscape as the Tennessee state legislature takes steps to dissolve the Achievement School District (ASD). On Tuesday, March 18, state ...

In coordination with the Ballmer Group, Communities In Schools has announced they will be committing up to $165 million to help the organization scale its integrated student support model to 1,000 ...

Communities In Schools began in the 1960s, when founder Bill Milliken, then a youth advocate in New York City, came up with the idea of bringing community resources inside public schools – where ...

Many youths show up at school lacking the training and encouragement. We are at a time now when more than half of the households in many communities are led by only one parent who often has little ...

With a $2.4 million, three-year grant, Communities In Schools of the Permian Basin has expanded into two more elementary schools and added two new high school campus coordinators.