County Commission delays vote on MSCS advisory group
“It is too late. We should have stepped up a long time ago when the superintendent was in the process of being fired,” Shelby County Commissioner Britney Thornton (in a file photo) said. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Shelby County Commissioners are still divided over whether their earlier no-confidence resolution in the Memphis-Shelby County Schools board led to plans to for a state takeover of the school system.
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