MSCS board member retires from teacher-union leadership
Memphis-Shelby County Schools board member Keith Williams attends a board meeting June 11, 2024. (Benjamin Naylor/The Daily Memphian file)
Memphis-Shelby County Schools board member Keith Williams has retired from his longtime role leading a local teacher union, a position that has stirred concerns of conflicting interests throughout his tenure on the school board.
“Board member Keith Williams has recently retired from his role as executive director of Memphis-Shelby County Education Association,” school board chair Joyce Dorse Coleman wrote in a newsletter published Friday, May 30.
“Congratulations on your many years of service,” Dorse Coleman wrote.
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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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