Union leader calls MSCS teacher contracts ‘enslavement’

By , Daily Memphian Updated: September 19, 2022 8:18 PM CT | Published: September 19, 2022 3:24 PM CT
<strong>Keith Williams, right, executive director of the Memphis-Shelby County Education Association and new Board of Education member, alleges the board issued invalid contracts to teachers.</strong>&nbsp;<strong>Williams is shown July 16 with Timothy Green Jr. at a &ldquo;Power to the Polls&rdquo; panel discussion at Riverside Missionary Baptist Church.</strong> (Ziggy Mack/Special to the Daily Memphian)

Keith Williams, right, executive director of the Memphis-Shelby County Education Association and new Board of Education member, alleges the board issued invalid contracts to teachers. Williams is shown July 16 with Timothy Green Jr. at a “Power to the Polls” panel discussion at Riverside Missionary Baptist Church. (Ziggy Mack/Special to the Daily Memphian)

In a lawsuit filed last month, the Memphis-Shelby County Education Association said teachers were asked, even “threatened,” to sign contracts without job descriptions or salary amounts.

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Aarron Fleming

Aarron Fleming

Once an intern, he never left, joining the staff full-time in 2022 as an education reporter. He moved to public safety in 2023, where he covered some of the city’s biggest court cases, including the criminal trials for those charged in the deaths of Tyré Nichols and rapper Young Dolph. He also chronicled the Shelby County Jail and the deaths that have occurred at the facility.

He now provides suburban coverage, focusing on DeSoto County and the surrounding municipalities.


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