School board races busy at filing deadline for August ballot
Memphis-Shelby County Schools board chair Althea Greene (left) and board member Joyce Dorse Coleman presided over a meeting. Greene drew challengers by the filing deadline on Thursday. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
The April 4 deadline to get on the August ballot saw action in races for five seats on the school board. In primaries for Shelby County state legislative seats, four incumbents won reelection at the deadline.
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