Spartan study: White Station students draft legislation to analyze driver’s ed availability in Tennessee
Shelby County Commissioner Erika Sugarmon, pictured above, encouraged her students to draft legislation for the inclusion of more driver’s education programs in schools. She has been writing bills with students in her class for years, but this bill was the first one to pass. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
A group of White Station High School students wanted to get more driver’s education programs into Tennessee schools, so their teacher, Shelby County Commissioner Erika Sugarmon, encouraged them to draft legislation toward the goal.
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Aarron Fleming
Once an intern, he never left, joining the staff full-time in 2022 as an education reporter. He moved to public safety in 2023, where he covered some of the city’s biggest court cases, including the criminal trials for those charged in the deaths of Tyré Nichols and rapper Young Dolph. He also chronicled the Shelby County Jail and the deaths that have occurred at the facility.
He now provides suburban coverage, focusing on DeSoto County and the surrounding municipalities.
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