The Shelby County Jail is aging, has failing infrastructure and is overcrowded. The sheriff's office allowed reporters inside ...

Memphis-Shelby County Schools sees improvement trend for student academics, but not what past administrations imagined. Some ...

Jared Myracle was brought in my former Superintendent Marie Feagins. Myracle has spend most of his career in education in ...

Gov. Bill Lee is pushing for a major revision to Tennessee charter school law to create ways for operators to apply directly ...

It’s official and signed into law. School vouchers are here to stay in Tennessee. The controversial Education Freedom Act is now signed into law, meaning taxpayer ...

Shelby County DA Steve Mulroy's office is "pulling every lever" to work toward a lower crime rate. Here's what he said his ...

The expansive state-wide voucher program, which provides public money for private school tuition, passed in both the ...

SHELBYVILLE — The publisher of a local government watchdog group has filed a federal lawsuit against Shelby County and a top county official, claiming that his constitutional rights were ...

The Memphis-Shelby County School Board fired Feagins over allegations dealing with overtime expenses, acceptance of a $45,000 donation, questions about federal funding and missed grant deadlines, and ...

Memphis-Shelby County might be the target today, but all those other Tennessee county school boards that said "no, thank you" to a statewide expansion of the Education Savings Account program ...

Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris spoke at the Memphis Rotary Club on Jan. 27. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian) Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris was in Nashville on Monday trying to talk lawmakers out of a ...