MSCS could add $11M to new Frayser high school
“I think that what is not understood,” Marie Feagins said of the vote, “is it is tough to find 40-plus acres of land to stand up a new building.” (Courtesy Angel Ortez/Memphis-Shelby County Schools Communications)
Memphis-Shelby County Schools could put another $11 million toward the total costs of its new Frayser high school build, a move district officials say is necessary to keep the project on track as it recalculates next steps for its stalled Cordova high school project.
Superintendent Marie Feagins gave assurances during a Tuesday, Nov. 19, meeting to some skeptical board members that Shelby County would reimburse the $11 million. The money would initially come out of the district’s fund balance.
The budget amendment, presented in Tuesday’s nonvoting meeting of the MSCS board, comes as Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris is readying his own budget amendment proposal to address the costs of the two new proposed schools.
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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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