New Alcy Elementary School a ‘long time coming’
Shelby County Schools Superintendent Joris M. Ray (left) chats with Alcy Elementary School fourth-grader Yoselyn Mejia, 9, while sitting in the school’s new flexible learning space during a tour on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
Alcy Elementary School students dance during class. (Mark Weber/ Daily Memphian)
Alcy Elementary School Principal Laquita Tate leads a tour of the new school building. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
Shelby County Schools Superintendent Joris M. Ray (middle) attends a ceremony for the new Alcy Elementary School building. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
SCS held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday for the school, which opened this fall to students from the former Alcy, Magnolia and Charjean elementary schools in South Memphis.
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Daja E. Henry is originally from New Orleans, Louisiana. She is a graduate of Howard University and the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University and currently is a general assignment reporter.