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Creating the superintendent evaluation rubric was a contentious process that revealed rifts among school board members and Marie Feagins, who has led the district for the last seven months.
Julian Cross is the second Memphis-Shelby County Schools staffer to depart the Office of the Superintendent this month.
The special assistant to Superintendent Marie Feagins had been in the newly created role for four months.
School officials will use information from new district building assessments to determine potential closures and consolidations, including whether Memphis-Shelby County Schools moves its headquarters.
The superintendent must approve the process used to measure her job performance. Once an agreement is reached, Memphis-Shelby County School Board members will complete the evaluation by spring.
Two outgoing school board members sent letters outlining their concerns with Feagins’ leadership style and communication with the board.
MSCS Superintendent Marie Feagins breaks down school closures and changes, including eliminating 600 vacant positions and reassigning those in other roles to decentralize the school system and refocus on what happens in the classroom.Related content:
Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner said detectives executed a felony warrant in Nashville for threats of mass violence at a school. Related content:
The Daily Memphian has compiled a table that shows every job the district has budgeted for this year and how many positions MSCS removed or added.
The Daily Memphian analyzed public records to determine what Memphis school district jobs were cut and which ones were created for this 2024-25 school year.
In its final action, the former MSCS board tasked incoming members with creating a strategic plan and evaluation for Superintendent Marie Feagins.
Memphis-Shelby County Schools welcomed more than 100,000 students back to classrooms for the first day of the 2024-25 school year.
If funding pressures disrupt construction timelines for the new schools, Shelby County Commissioner Charlie Caswell knows what he wants to see: “Frayser’s coming first.”
The professional comedian, performing under the FunnyMaine moniker, gained popularity for his comedic re-enactments of University of Alabama football fans.
New Memphis-Shelby County Schools Superintendent Marie Feagins said her first 100 days went “exactly the way that I had hoped.”
MSCS Superintendent Marie Feagins says Caldwell-Guthrie Elementary School, shuttered last week by its state-takeover operators, will stay open this fall and expand to take on students from Humes Middle School. MSCS closed Humes earlier this spring.
During a recent hiring fair, MSCS offered jobs to about 100 people, but only 15 candidates were given teaching positions.
Memphis-Shelby County Schools Superintendent Marie Feagins and Board of Education member Mauricio Calvo clashed over job cuts, but in the end a budget of more than $1.849 billion was passed.
Math and English language arts proficiency varies by race, and MSCS’ scores continue to fall below statewide data.
Opinion: This school board is dangerously close to looking like the boards before it, playing to the people in the room during meetings rather than the 110,000 students and their families they were elected to serve.
“I understand the critics. I receive it. I hear it. I listen to it,” MSCS Superintendent Marie Feagins said of the district’s communications around the planned elimination of about 1,100 positions.
The district’s HR chief sent a late-night email to the MSCS Board of Education that said the superintendent ignored advice from himself and MSCS’ former general counsel.
According to the email, about 41% of those 1,100 positions, or around 450, are already vacant.
An anonymous caller recently threatened Memphis-Shelby County Schools' new superintendent through phone calls to her brother, according to a police report.
Feagins has officially been superintendent for only about two months, but has been gearing up for this role for a long time.
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