School directors see myriad of problems with COVID-19 opening
KIPP Memphis Collegiate High Spanish III teacher Sarah Kerst welcomes her students to the first day of virtual school from her empty classroom on Monday, Aug. 31. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian file)
Tennessee superintendents described a litany of problems to legislators Tuesday, Sept. 22, with the worst of the problems being that low-performing students are falling further behind during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Sam Stockard is a Nashville-based reporter with more than 30 years of journalism experience as a writer, editor and columnist covering the state Legislature and Tennessee politics for The Daily Memphian.
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