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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