All-girls Grizzlies prep school approved
Grizzlies Prep opened an all-boys charter middle school in 2012 at 168 Jefferson Ave. After starting with fewer than 100 sixth-grade boys, it now serves more than 300 students in grades six through eight. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
“We’ve seen good work from the single-gender schools, even though there’s not that many of them,” said Emily Lilley of the Tennessee Charter School Center.
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King Jemison is completing a journalism master’s program at Northwestern University. After graduating from Stanford University in 2021, he taught elementary school in Memphis for two years.
Laura Testino
Laura Testino is an enterprise reporter on The Daily Memphian’s metro team who writes most often about how education policies shape the lives of children and families. She regularly contributes to coverage of breaking news events and actions of the Tennessee General Assembly. Testino’s journalism career in Memphis began six years ago at The Commercial Appeal, where she began chronicling learning disruptions associated with the pandemic, and continued with Chalkbeat, where she dug into education administration in Memphis. Her reporting has appeared in The New York Times, The Times-Picayune, The Tuscaloosa News and USA Today.
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