Former Memphis-Shelby County Schools Superintendent Marie Feagins will not immediately get her job back after a judge last week denied a request to reinstate her to the district’s top position.
Feagins had requested a preliminary injunction to reinstall her to the position in her ongoing lawsuit against the Memphis-Shelby County School Board, which voted 6-3 in January to fire her after less than a year on the job.
Though Feagins will not return to her position right away due to Shelby County Circuit Judge Robert Childers’ Friday ruling, her lawsuit against the school board is ongoing. And her ouster continues to bog down the district, as it spends resources on an external law firm to defend its actions in court while facing the serious prospect of a state takeover in the coming months…