Shelby County Schools rallies citywide push at end of eventful school year
Mother and daughter Patricia and Eve Lockhart dance among the crowd at Shelby County Schools' "SCS is 901" rally Wednesday, May 15, 2019, at Levitt Shell in Overton Park. (Ziggy Mack/Special to The Daily Memphian)
The "SCS is 901" campaign marks 150 years of organized public education as the city celebrates the 200th anniversary of the founding of Memphis.
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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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