Feds OK contract between charter school network, Catholic diocese
A teacher at Our Lady of Sorrows in Frayser says goodbye to one of her students on the last day of school this year. The Jubilee Schools in Memphis closed at the end of May, with many of the schools reopening as charter schools. (Karen Pulfer Focht/Special to The Daily Memphian)
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.
The federal guidance removes the final hurdle for Compass Community Schools to open its six campuses across Memphis on July 31 in former Catholic school buildings.
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