MSCS board member proposes keeping Marie Feagins
Amber Huett-Garcia, left, and Marie Feagins, right. (The Daily Memphian files)
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Memphis-Shelby County Schools board member Amber Huett-Garcia has proposed an alternative to firing Superintendent Marie Feagins, board documents show.
Huett-Garcia’s resolution would provide time for Feagins to remedy the issues board members identified and would require monthly updates to the public about the progress made.
“... the Board has the opportunity to demonstrate strong governance and communicate the desired improvements to Superintendent Dr. Marie Feagins so that she may have additional time to remedy the root issues outlined in the prior resolution calling for termination,” Huett-Garcia’s resolution reads. (Find the resolution in full in this story.)
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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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