Collierville pays off MSCS settlement early, freeing up funding
“It’s a huge milestone for Collierville Schools to complete that part of our life cycle,” Collierville Schools Superintendent Russell Dyer said.(Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Collierville Schools has an additional $500,000 available in this upcoming budget because the town paid off its part of a settlement with Memphis-Shelby County Schools a year early.
The exact amount is $507,819, and for the last 11 years, Collierville has paid MSCS that installment annually as part of a lawsuit settlement after the six Shelby County suburbs formed their school districts. The payments were to cover the various school buildings, once under the county system, when the campuses were transferred to the suburban systems.
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Abigail Warren
Abigail Warren is an award-winning reporter and covers Collierville and Germantown for The Daily Memphian. She was raised in the Memphis suburbs, attended Westminster Academy and studied journalism at the University of Memphis. She has been with The Daily Memphian since 2018.
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