Nearly 2 in 10 Memphis-Shelby County schools will get new principals next school year, as Tennessee’s largest school district continues a sweeping restructuring that began last summer.
Jerica Phillips, Memphis-Shelby County Schools’ chief of communications, is the third member of Superintendent Joris Ray’s cabinet to exit this school year.
Gerald Darling, who will retire at the end of the month as Memphis-Shelby County Schools security chief, was hailed as “instrumental in the reduction of major incidents in our schools.”