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Mid-South News
11:04 pm
Thu March 8, 2012

Planning Commission Decides How Merged Memphis & Shelby County Schools Will Be Run

 

The people charged with planning the merger of Memphis and Shelby County Schools settled on an organizational structure for the new district last night.

The 21-member Transition Planning Commission was actually scheduled to vote on an organizational structure last week. Two options were on the table.

The first was a “unified district.” In a unified district, the primary decision-making power rests with the superintendent, which is similar to the way both Memphis and Shelby County Schools are run right now.

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Behind the Headlines
4:44 pm
Fri February 17, 2012

Radio Roundtable: Municipal Schools and the Release of Drug Felons

Credit Bard Cole / WKNO
Behind the Headlines: Friday evenings at 6:30 on WKNO-TV 10.

This week on the Behind the Headlines Radio Roundtable, the panel discusses Municipal Schools, as well as a law that will release as many as twelve thousand drug felons nationwide.

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Behind the Headlines
6:03 pm
Fri January 27, 2012

Radio Roundtable: Who Owns School Buildings and Property?

This week on the Behind the Headlines radio roundtable, the panel discusses the recent attempt to introduce a bill in the legislature that would transfer county school buildings to municipalities.

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Mid-South News
6:00 am
Thu October 13, 2011

Big Changes On The Way For Shelby County Schools, Municipalities Say Too Big

Merger will triple the size of Shelby County Schools and it will change the district from largely suburban to much more urban.

Memphis and Shelby County Schools might be on their way to consolidation, but sentiments on the matter are far from unified. The transition team and the unified school board charged with planning and executing school consolidation have met less than a handful of times, but already five of the six municipalities surrounding Memphis are thinking about creating their own municipal schools districts, rather than send their kids to a merged Shelby County Schools, and their concerns about consolidation may not be something the people captaining the merger can overcome, no matter what they do.

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