Teachers’ group lobbies for Spanish translations and emotional support staff in budget
Emily Chambers, an English as a Second Language teacher at Cordova High School, asks school officials to ensure report cards can be translated into Spanish next school year. (Laura Faith Kebede/Chalkbeat)
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Laura Faith Kebede is a distinguished journalist in residence at the Institute for Public Service Reporting at the University of Memphis. She leads the Institute’s Civil Wrongs project to write about historical cases of racial terror as a corps member for Report for America. You can follow her on Twitter @kebedefaith.
Efforts to secure resources for Shelby County Schools come in advance of an expected school board vote on a spending plan, which could occur as soon as next week. The budget is the first under the district’s new superintendent, Joris Ray.
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