There is a joke going around among school administrators across the country in the wake of the decision by Chicago school leaders to close more than 50 schools there.

“What do you call a superintendent who closes schools?” countywide school board member Kevin Woods began in telling the joke at the Tuesday, April 23, board meeting. “You call him a past superintendent.”

2. Hopson Proposes Closing 11 Schools In 2014-2015 - Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Memphis-Shelby County Schools superintendent Dorsey Hopson is proposing the countywide school board close 11 more schools, 10 in the city of Memphis and one in Millington.

The closings which include three Memphis high schools – Northside, Carver and Westwood – would take effect in the 2014-2015 school year if approved by the school board.

3. Achievement School District Adds Six Schools - Monday, December 17, 2012

The Achievement School District will double in size in Memphis with the 2013-2014 school year.

Leaders of the state-run school district for the bottom 5 percent of schools statewide by student performance announced Friday, Dec. 14, six new Memphis schools for the district.

4. Achievement School District Adds Six Schools - Friday, December 14, 2012

The Achievement School District will double in size in Memphis with the 2013-2014 school year.

Leaders of the state-run school district for the bottom 5 percent of schools statewide by student performance announced Friday, Dec. 14, six new Memphis schools for the district.

5. Gordon Elementary Not Part of State-Led District - Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Leaders of the Achievement School District will announce Friday, Dec. 14, which schools in the Memphis City Schools system they plan to include in the state-led school district next school year.

And as the announcement nears, they are also making it clear that Gordon Elementary School will not be on the list of 10 schools. Gordon also is not on the list of 14 Memphis elementary and middle schools under consideration.

6. Achievement School District Weighs 10 Additions - Friday, November 09, 2012

The state-run Achievement School District will add 10 more Memphis schools in the 2013-2014 school year, the first year of the schools merger in Shelby County.

The 10 schools to be run under state control or with charter school operators selected by the state will be announced Dec. 17. That’s also when leaders of the district will announce which schools they will run directly and which ones will be operated by charters.

7. Law Week to Honor, Celebrate Profession - Thursday, April 12, 2007

The law means different things to
different people.

But to the hundreds of future American citizens who will gather at The Cannon Center for the Performing Arts next month, it means opportunity.

8. Archived Article: Memos - Wednesday, October 01, 1997
Ruth Wallace Archer, a teacher at Oak Forest Elementary School; Patricia Willkinson Sutton, a teacher at Sherwood Middle School; and Raydine J. Yarbrough, a teacher at Florida Elementary School have been named finalists in the National Science Found...

9. Archived Article: Memos - Wednesday, October 01, 1997
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