Literacy Mid-South gets $4.5 million grant to support local students
Tennessee Department of Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn (right) visits with a Memphis student in 2020. The TDOE is granting $4.5 million to Literacy Mid-South. (The Daily Memphian file)
Literacy Mid-South has been selected to receive a $4.5 million grant from the Tennessee Department of Education to support Memphis-Shelby County Schools students and students attending public area charter schools.
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Literacy Mid-South Tennessee Department of EducationAarron 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.
He now provides suburban coverage, focusing on Desoto County and the surrounding municipalities.
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