In deposition, Marie Feagins was pressed on private meeting claims and a ‘formal complaint’
Former Memphis-Shelby County Schools superintendent Marie Feagins appears in circuit court July 22, 2025. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
In a deposition taken in the lawsuit for her ouster, former Memphis schools Superintendent Marie Feagins answered questions about how she sourced claims that board members illegally met in private to plot her termination.
Robert Spence, the outside attorney representing the Memphis-Shelby County Schools board, pressed Feagins for names and details during the deposition, taken for nearly three hours on July 16, before the first major hearing in the case.
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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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