Commissioners consider cutting terms of MSCS board members
Shelby County Commissioner Henri E. Brooks tried unsuccessfully to offer an alternative to the proposal that is, in essence, a voter recall of the current MSCS board. (Mark Weber/The Daily M file)
Five of seven County Commissioners present for a Wednesday test vote supported a move that ultimately would cut in half the terms of five school board members elected in 2024.
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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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