MSCS board approves almost $2B budget with raises for some
Roderick Richmond cut funding allocated for the so-called activity buses, a highlight of Marie Feagins’ tenure that promised added bus routes for middle and high school students to improve access to extracurricular activities after school. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Memphis-Shelby County Schools board members approved Wednesday, June 11, a $1.9 billion budget for the 2025-26 school year that includes 2% raises for some district staff.
The raises, which will cost $6.4 million in the first year, do not apply to the district’s existing pay scale for educators.
The budget, the first for Interim Superintendent Roderick Richmond and four newcomers on the school board, also promises new staff in security and building maintenance plus funding to restore a district-wide assessment software that allows teachers, principals and central-office staff to track student progress in real time.
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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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