Shelby County Schools enrollment drops 2%
Saturday’s report was better than the district’s initial numbers that showed Shelby County Schools enrolled 5,000 fewer students. (Anthony Lanzilote/Chalkbeat)
Laura Faith Kebede
Laura Faith Kebede is a distinguished journalist in residence at the Institute for Public Service Reporting at the University of Memphis. She leads the Institute’s Civil Wrongs project to write about historical cases of racial terror as a corps member for Report for America. You can follow her on Twitter @kebedefaith.
District leaders speculate some students left in favor of in-person learning at charter or private schools because SCS started the year all online.
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