County Commission may attempt to block state schools takeover
Shelby County Commissioner Shante Avant, right, has proposed a nonbinding recommendation to try to block the state school takeover of Memphis-Shelby County Schools, along with Chairman Michael Whaley. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian file)
“If we do nothing then we are really leaving ourselves at the will of the state,” said Commissioner Shante Avant.
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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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