MSCS cut virtual teachers, but might have to bring them back
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, 2020. Virtual classrooms were commonplace during the COVID-19 pandemic, and MSCS may hire some virtual teachers for the sixth straight school year. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Memphis-Shelby County Schools began the year with hundreds of teacher vacancies, leaving thousands of Memphis students lacking a certified teacher.
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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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