Each of the six suburbs outside of Memphis is considering opening its own municipal school district, rather than join the merged Memphis and Shelby County School District in 2013. And they each hired consulting firm Southern Educational Strategies LLC to estimate how much that would cost. Now, Shelby County Commissioner Mike Ritz is questioning those estimates.
Senior Reporter for the Memphis Daily News Bill Dries says Ritz’s estimates are much higher than the consultant’s report.
“The percentages run from about 60 percent more to 400 percent more on the property tax rate,” Dries said.
Southern Educational Strategies LLC told the suburbs they wouldn’t have to pay for the school buildings within their borders. Ritz thinks they will.
