U of M school district launches preschool program at Le Bonheur
Students of the University of Memphis Campus School - Kimball attend their school's grand opening Aug. 8, 2025. Up to 10 preschoolers admitted to Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital for long-term stays can now become students of University Schools. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
The new, one-year pilot program is effective this school year and open to certain 3- and 4-year-old patients at the Memphis children’s hospital.
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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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