A senior at Kingsbury High School, Marlena Mireles is one of three Memphis-area students to receive the 2015 award recognizing youth who are making a difference.

More than $4.5 million of a $50 million grant announced this week for Teach For America will go to support and recruit corps members in Memphis .

The outgoing U.S. education chief makes his fourth trip to Memphis, where schools must overcome poverty and other mitigating factors to provide a culture of learning.

The company will get $225,000 next year to help 15,000 students make up failed classes under a credit recovery policy that the district is asking the board to revise.

Sharon Griffin, who helped to create the Innovation Zone for Shelby County Schools in 2013, is Tennessee's 2015 supervisor of the year.

Seeking to provide a one-stop-shop for parents with questions about Shelby County Schools, district leaders encourage families to use its new community resource.

Superintendent Dorsey Hopson, who oversees Tennessee's largest public school district, gets satisfactory marks on his latest evaluation.

Three charter networks have applied to expand next year in Memphis as part of the state's takeover and charter conversion of five low-performing schools.

The State Board of Education approves an appeal from national charter operator KIPP to open two new schools in Nashville, overruling the local district board.

While community input is key to the state's new strategy for turning around chronically underperforming schools in Memphis, getting parents to engage is a challenge.