Conaway: In winning race to bottom today, Tennessee will lose tomorrow
Dan Conaway
Dan Conaway was a freelance columnist with The Daily Memphian from 2018 to 2025.
“No state, not one, has ever rejected this federal education funding. No state. Not one.”
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