County Commission votes to put all 9 MSCS board seats on 2026 ballot — again
The Shelby County Board of Commissioners vote to put all nine seats on the Memphis-Shelby County Schools board on the 2026 ballot — again. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
The Shelby County Commission voted to override Mayor Lee Harris’ veto of their original decision to make the school board change, meaning five MSCS school board members will see their terms cut short.
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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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