Partisan school board primaries are coming
Mickell Lowery speaks during his family’s New Year's Day Prayer Breakfast on Jan. 1. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Hours after he cast the deciding vote to override the veto of County Mayor Lee Harris, County Commissioner Mickell Lowery was campaigning on the vote that affirms moving all nine Memphis-Shelby County Schools board seats to the 2026 election cycle.
“This moment is not about politics; it’s about priorities,” Lowery said in an Oct. 27 press release from his campaign for Shelby County mayor. “Our education system is at a crossroads. Families across Shelby County are calling for change — real, structural change that puts children at the center of every decision we make.”
Lowery had been in favor of changing the county charter to add a recall provision for school board members, which would follow the same process currently allowed for recalling the county mayor and county commissioners.
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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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