More for Memphis wants to create united front against childhood poverty
Students are cheered as they arrive for the first day of school at Belle Forest Elementary in 2022. More for Memphis says their plan could improve economic opportunity through education. (Brad Vest/The Daily Memphian)
Organizers of the More for Memphis plan are pitching elected officials on a new board to assign more than $1 billion in funding to efforts they say would solve the city’s economic mobility problem.
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Memphis-Shelby County Schools More for Memphis plan Shelby County Commission Memphis City Council Seeding SuccessLaura Testino
Laura Testino is an enterprise reporter on The Daily Memphian’s metro team who writes most often about how education policies shape the lives of children and families. She regularly contributes to coverage of breaking news events and actions of the Tennessee General Assembly. Testino’s journalism career in Memphis began six years ago at The Commercial Appeal, where she began chronicling learning disruptions associated with the pandemic, and continued with Chalkbeat, where she dug into education administration in Memphis. Her reporting has appeared in The New York Times, The Times-Picayune, The Tuscaloosa News and USA Today.
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