New MSCS bereavement leave policy clarifies who qualifies as immediate family
Participants (left to right) DeJuan Parker, Charlotte Fields and Quintin Robinson take part in a collaborative conferencing session with Memphis-Shelby County Schools and one of its unions on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2023. MSCS and area teacher unions agreed to clarify that staff’s parent-child relationships can include biological children as well as foster children, legal guardianships, adopted children and stepchildren. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Under current district policy, employees are allotted three paid days off when a loved one dies but must use personal sick days.
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Memphis-Shelby County Schools Memphis-Shelby County Education Association United Education AssociationAarron Fleming
Once an intern, he never left, joining the staff full-time in 2022 as an education reporter. He moved to public safety in 2023, where he covered some of the city’s biggest court cases, including the criminal trials for those charged in the deaths of Tyré Nichols and rapper Young Dolph. He also chronicled the Shelby County Jail and the deaths that have occurred at the facility.
He now provides suburban coverage, focusing on DeSoto County and the surrounding municipalities.
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