County Commission fails to fund MSCS takeover lawsuit
Shelby County Commissioner Britney Thornton (middle), a Democrat, voted with the Republican members to prevent the funding motion to proceed. (Brad Vest/The Daily Memphian file)
A procedural vote Monday, April 27, killed a maneuver to fund a legal challenge by Memphis-Shelby County Schools to the state’s takeover of the school system. But there could be a second try.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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