Two Memphis charter schools take different paths toward closure for academics
Believe Memphis Academy, top, and Memphis Delta Prepare are both closing to students at the end of the 2025-26 year. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
South Memphis charter schools Believe Memphis Academy and Memphis Delta Preparatory Charter School each received a Tennessee “priority” designation for low performance earlier this school year.
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Believe Memphis Academy Memphis Grizzlies Preparatory Charter School Memphis Delta Preparatory Empower Memphis Career and College Prep Tennessee Public Charter School Commission Memphis-Shelby County SchoolsLaura 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. Reach Laura with questions, story ideas or tips: Ltestino@dailymemphian.com or Ldtestino.54 on Signal.
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