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Memphis-Shelby County Schools Superintendent Joris Ray talks about how he has stayed positive amid "the hardest year," in an exclusive interview with Chalkbeat.

Memphis-Shelby County Schools chief of safety and security, Gerald Darling, retires Monday after 13 years in the position.

Blake Ballin has been hired to represent the 13-year-old charged in the Cummings school shooting

Shelby County commissioners debated directing more resources into early childhood education, with one piece focused on violence prevention.

“Everything I did was out of what I’ve been doing all my life. What I’ve been taught to do and what I knew was right to do”

He also added there are two victims involved in Thursday’s shooting at school, his son and the suspect.

Students were rushed to safety at Metropolitan Baptist Church in south Memphis Thursday to wait for family members to pick them up.

Shootings, like at SCS' Cummings K-8 Optional School in Memphis, raise question of if it's best to have such a wide age range of children in the same building.

A 13-year-old boy was charged with attempted murder Friday after police say he tried to shoot his classmate inside a Memphis, Tenn., school Thursday.

Memphis police report says the two boys got into a fight before the victim was shot in a back hallway of the school