Tennessee lawmaker considering ‘all options’ for MSCS
“... If it’s the will of the board, they are duly elected like I am, and so, if they choose to remove her, then I am going to get with them,” said Rep. Mark White about the MSCS board’s meeting to potentially terminate Superintendent Marie Feagins’ contract. (Greg Campbell/Special to The Daily Memphian file)
More leadership turmoil at Memphis-Shelby County Schools could bring back proposals for state intervention in Tennessee’s largest school district, a state lawmaker told The Daily Memphian.
Rep. Mark White, a Memphis Republican who won reelection in November, said Tuesday, Dec. 17, that “all options are on the table” to manage the dysfunction he sees with MSCS.
“We’ve got too much opportunity in our community right now for this to continue,” White said. “We’ve got to get some stability in our school system for the sake of our children.”
Among those options could be reviving a legislative proposal White floated last year that would add state-appointed school board members to the MSCS elected board of nine.
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Laura 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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