MSCS superintendent mid-year 2024 evaluations to happen in private

The Memphis-Shelby County Schools board will conduct mid-year evaluations of Superintendent Dr. Marie Feagins in one-on-one conversations behind closed doors.

The board made the final agreement for the mid-year evaluations during a meeting Monday evening at the MSCS Teaching and Learning Center. The meetings will not be public and will entail each commissioner setting up a private talk with Feagins to discuss her performance.

Commissioner Twoanna Murphy said the lack of transparency troubles her.

“When (the evaluation is) behind closed doors and it’s not transparent, that’s between Dr. Feagins and us, the commissioners, so I think that it needs to be more (transparent) in that. So I’m not so good or clear on just doing an informal, because I just want to make sure that everything is out in the open,” Murphy said.

There is nothing stopping board members from writing down their questions and what feedback they provided to Feagins and sharing it with others, commissioner Natalie McKinney emphasized.

“It does not say that we don’t put it down in writing and share it with everyone… I want to make sure that everybody understands that,” McKinney said. “It says in the contract we have individual (evaluations) but again, it does not prohibit us from putting things down and everyone being able to see it.”