Laura D. Testino 〽️
@ldtestino
Journalist @dailymemphian // education @chalkbeattn @memphisnews 🤓// once @nolanews ✨// stories mine, Rita’s 🐶 // 🔎 tips [email protected]
From court today:
A Shelby County judge will soon decide whether Marie Feagins returns to her former superintendent post at Memphis-Shelby County Schools. dailymemphian.com/article/53353
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The Edna Karr community is mourning the death of Corey Adams, shot and killed in Memphis “We were talking and my last words to him were, ‘Go be great,’ ” his high school guidance counselor said. “He’s like, ‘I am. I can’t wait.’” // @NOLAnews nola.com/sports/high_sc…
Officials with the school district sent a statement confirming around 317 vacancies at the district, specifically in Special Education and at Elementary schools. localmemphis.com/article/news/l…
MSCS issues a press release confirming story first reported by @DailyMemphian, which has tracked this process since last fall:
Porter-Leath, a local early childhood education organization, appears to be taking over local management of the $30-million, federally funded preschool program Head Start, which was most recently operated by MSCS. dailymemphian.com/article/53236 By @ldtestino
NEWS: Porter-Leath beats MSCS in local battle for pre-K money Porter-Leath, a local early childhood education organization, appears to be taking over local management of a $30 million, federally funded preschool program known as Head Start: dailymemphian.com/subscriber/sec…
Roderick Richmond is one third of the way through his interim superintendent contract, which expires in July 2026. MSCS board members haven’t discussed how long his role will last. dailymemphian.com/subscriber/art… By @ldtestino
I promise writing "first reported by" won't make you burst into newspaper dust I wrote it over the weekend and lived to tell the tale!
The County Commission is back on the idea of putting all nine MSCS board seats on the ballot next year instead of the four that are scheduled to go in 2026. It's what some have called a de facto recall of the school board.
Shelby County Commissioners will discuss putting all nine Memphis-Shelby County Schools board seats on the ballot next year. Some say this amounts to a voter recall of the board. dailymemphian.com/article/53256
NEWS: Roderick Richmond has been interim superintendent for six months, one third of his contract. The Daily Memphian asked board members whether they will pursue a search: dailymemphian.com/subscriber/art…
Ghanaian students have been told to vacate university housing unless debts are paid, in what one student calls a “betrayal” by his home country. dailymemphian.com/article/53149
The Lakeland school district will add its first-ever senior class this year. dailymemphian.com/article/53123
got to rescue this cat from this St Francis of Assisi tree and realize a lifelong dream putting on my resume “climbed a tree and coaxed a kitten to jump into a rescue bucket”
"This is the part that will forever haunt me. If I or anyone else had been closer to them, we would have helped her. We would have grabbed one of the kids. But we didn’t know that we were about to be plunged into the water. We simply didn’t know." texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…
