Funding approval will save 1,000 pre-K seats
Tony Barnes volunteers to read next during a small group lesson in a Cherokee Elementary School pre-K class on April 12, 2019. Shelby County commissioners have signed off on $2.5 million in pre-K “seed funding” – part of a total $8 million commitment from Shelby County Schools and from city and county governments – to preserve 1,000 pre-K seats for the upcoming school year. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian file)
The pre-K funding will come from the county’s reserves and are expected to be replenished once a court case has been resolved, said commission chairman Van Turner, who did not say what case he was referencing.
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