Last year, MSCS started school missing 478 teachers. This year, it’s hoping to be down to 240 vacancies — or fewer
“I’m hoping that, by the time we start school Monday, we will be close to 200, if not less than having 200, vacancies in the district,” Memphis-Shelby County Schools Interim Superintendent Roderick Richmond said Thursday, July 31. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
In Memphis, significant portions of the teacher population are either new to the profession or nearing retirement eligibility.
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Memphis-Shelby County Schools teacher vacancies EducationLaura 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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