Murfreesboro City Schools was awarded the first ever Shining Star Award for their work during the 2015 Summer Food Service Program. Sandy Scheele, MCS Nutrition Director, attended the No Tennessee Child Hungry Excellence Awards at the Tennessee Capital where she accepted the honor. The award is given to the summer… Read More »
Murfreesboro City Schools has partnered with the Breakfast Rotary Club of Murfreesboro and Read to Succeed to establish a Little Free Library system throughout the school district. MCS students along with the Murfreesboro community will be able to visit the free library at any city school and ‘bring-a-book, leave-a-book.’ Libraries… Read More »
Murfreesboro City Schools hosted the 2015 Boys and Girls Basketball Tournaments on Dec. 3 in the Overall Creek Elementary School gymnasium. The girls’ competition began at 5:30 p.m. with Scales defeating Erma Siegel. The matchup was followed by the boys’ final where Black Fox secured a victory over Scales. Congratulations… Read More »
Ed and Andrea Loughry join an elite group of civic leaders to be honored by The City Schools Foundation for their support of public education at the 9th Annual Excellence in Education Celebration on Feb 5, 2016. Ed Loughry is a 6th generation native of Murfreesboro. Ed is a graduate… Read More »
Discovery School at Bellwood scored a consecutive third place win in this year’s Music City BEST robotics competition and has advanced to the South’s BEST Championship at Auburn University. The team earned high marks in several areas including fifth place robot, first place marketing presentation, best middle school robot, most… Read More »
TNReady is the state’s new TCAP test for English language arts and math in grades 3-11. The new TNReady TCAP tests are designed to assess true student understanding and not just basic memorization and test-taking skills. TNReady will measure student understanding of our current state standards in English language arts… Read More »
On October 31, 2015, the Discovery School Robotics Team will return to Lipscomb University to participate in the annual Music City BEST (Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology) engineering competition. Designed as a competition for middle and high school students, Discovery school continues to be the only elementary school and the… Read More »
The City Schools Foundation will distribute over $50,000 in grants to teachers in 2015. Sixteen grants have been selected for funding out of 75 grant applications. The Foundation will award the largest grant in its history, $22,995, to Northfield Elementary Music Teachers to fund “Tickling the Ivories” combining music and… Read More »