Radio Roundtable: How Suburbs are Handling Separation from the Unified School District

WKNO | By Justin Willingham

Published November 25, 2013 at 11:31 PM CST

This week on the Behind the Headlines Radio Roundtable, a look ahead at some of the challenges being faced by the newly created Municipal School boards.

Host Eric Barnes, publisher of the Memphis Daily News, is joined by Mayor Mike Wissman of Arlington, Memphis Daily News reporter Bill Dries, Germantown School Board member Ken Hoover, and Millington School Board member Greg Ritter. They discuss how individual municipalities are fighting to disassociate themselves from the Unified School District of Shelby County.

For the complete conversation, check the Behind the Headlines video page, or tune-in Fridays at 7 p.m. on WKNO-TV 10.

Justin Willingham

My mother introduced me to WKNO-FM and public radio long before I can remember. I suppose the first thing I really recall about WKNO-FM is that every afternoon, when my mother picked me up from school, the radio was tuned-in to The World, then All Things Considered, probably beginning around age 8. The way these reporters and hosts took you from the comfort of your mom's van to wherever in the world they were reporting from absolutely fascinated me. From then on, I was officially hooked.

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