House speaker talks state’s ‘nuclear options’ if MSCS board fires Feagins
The Memphis-Shelby County Schools Board of Education is considering firing Superintendent Marie Feagins (center). (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
“You cannot accept anymore that the lowest performing school system in our state is in Shelby County,” State House Speaker Cameron Sexton said while in Memphis. “There’s too many people. There’s too many new jobs coming in. It’s too important for our success.”
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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