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SCS board chair: Political pressure, numbers driving return to classrooms

By , Daily Memphian Updated: February 18, 2021 8:31 AM CT | Published: February 18, 2021 4:00 AM CT

On “Behind The Headlines,” SCS board chairwoman Miska Clay Bibbs also said she is hearing from a lot of parents who will opt to continue online classes for their children — so many that she says it is possible some schools may have more teachers than students.

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Shelby County Schools Behind The Headlines Miska Clay Bibbs pandemic education

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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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