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Mid-South News
2:24 pm
Tue April 3, 2012

New State-Run School District Is Facing An Old Problem

Pizza was served at a parent meeting at Westside Middle School.
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Come August, the state will be calling the shots at Frayser Elementary, Corning Elementary, and Westside Middle. The schools are the first to be announced in Tennessee’s Achievement School District. The achievement district was created as a part of the state’s application to get federal “Race to the Top” money and it is a state-run district for low performing schools.

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Mid-South News
6:00 am
Mon March 12, 2012

KIPP Memphis To Expand To Almost 10 Times Current Size

Andrea Criollo (right) teaches 6th grade reading at the KIPP DIAMOND Academy in Memphis.
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The Knowledge Is Power Program, or KIPP, is a national network of charter schools that have extended school days and a relentless focus on college. Currently, there are about 500 KIPP students in Memphis, but when the expansion is all done, in 2016, KIPP will have 4,500 students in every grade, kindergarten through 12. And 10 separate schools—five in North Memphis and five in South Memphis.

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Mid-South News
11:04 pm
Thu March 8, 2012

Planning Commission Decides How Merged Memphis & Shelby County Schools Will Be Run

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The people charged with planning the merger of Memphis and Shelby County Schools settled on an organizational structure for the new district last night.

The 21-member Transition Planning Commission was actually scheduled to vote on an organizational structure last week. Two options were on the table.

The first was a “unified district.” In a unified district, the primary decision-making power rests with the superintendent, which is similar to the way both Memphis and Shelby County Schools are run right now.

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