SCS superintendent gets good marks on community relations
Shelby County Schools superintendent Dr. Joris M. Ray (in a March 20, 2020 photo) received mostly good ratings in a survey of Shelby County School board members.(Mark Weber/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.
Superintendent Joris Ray’s lowest score was in his relationship with district staff, especially in implementing a “rigorous, accurate” employee evaluation system.
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