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Ripley Rotary Club celebrates a century of service
RIPLEY, Tenn. (WMC) - The Rotary Club of Ripley, Tennessee, celebrated a century of service this week. Dozens of Rotarians from West and Middle Tennessee attended the Centennial Celebration at Rolling Hills Country Club. Action News 5’s Joe Birch was delighted to serve as the after-dinner speaker to celebrate the...
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Global Microsoft issues hit gov’t offices and businesses in Memphis
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Issues with Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft 365 led to a massive global outage. Daniel Vardy, the front desk manager at the Central Station Hotel on South Main, realized something was going on with their Microsoft email around noon on Thursday. “Instantly, yeah, so definitely,” Vardy said. The hotel is under new management. […]
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Sun Today, Cold Tomorrow: Memphis Braces for Weekend Freeze
An observation at Memphis International Airport showed 63 degrees under overcast skies. Northwesterly winds were expected to persist through the day. The National Weather Service’s Shelby County forecast calls for sunshine this afternoon, with temperatures holding in the lower 60s. Thursday night is forecast to be mostly clear, while regional overnight lows after the Thursday boundary are expected to range from the upper 20s to mid-30s.
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Memphis graduation rate climbs nearly 8 points since 2020, but test scores still trail the state
Did you know search engines like Google are changing the way you see news? Keep Chalkbeat’s valuable education coverage at the top of your feeds by clicking here and checking the box next to our name. More Memphis students are graduating high school than six years ago, according to the state’s most recent data. More than 7,100 Memphis-Shelby County Schools students from the class of 2026 received their high school diplomas, up from around 6,200 in the spring of 2020. That represents a 7.7 percentage point increase in the district’s graduation rate since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. MSCS still lags behind the state average graduation rate , which exceeded 93% last school year. Over 85% of Memphis high schoolers earned their diplomas, while English language learners had the lowest graduation rate, at 71%. MSCS leaders are touting the growth as the result of several years of focus on individual student data and graduation coaches. The gains come at a crucial time for MSCS, as a looming state takeover of the district puts increased pressure on student achievement. “It continues to show progress for all the things that we’ve been doing for many years,” Chief Academic Officer