Memphis-Shelby schools board OKs expansions for two charter schools
Memphis Stem Academy principal LaWanda Clark (left) sits with fourth graders during lunch on Jan. 16, 2020. The school was approved to expand to accomodate 300 students. (Jim Weber/The Daily Memphian)
The approval comes after the Memphis-Shelby County Schools' charter office recommended revoking the charter of six schools last month.
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Memphis-Shelby County Schools Memphis Stem Academy Believe Memphis AcademyAarron Fleming
Once an intern, he never left, joining the staff full-time in 2022 as an education reporter. He moved to public safety in 2023, where he covered some of the city’s biggest court cases, including the criminal trials for those charged in the deaths of Tyré Nichols and rapper Young Dolph. He also chronicled the Shelby County Jail and the deaths that have occurred at the facility.
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