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Subcommittee advances bill to create oversight board for Memphis-Shelby County Schools
Summary
The Finance, Ways and Means subcommittee voted to add an amendment and advance House Bill 662, which would establish a nine-member oversight board to review the budget, contracts and facilities of Memphis-Shelby County Schools, to full finance.
The Finance, Ways and Means subcommittee on April 17 approved an amendment and voted to advance House Bill 662 as amended to full finance, moving forward legislation that would create an oversight board to work with the locally elected Memphis-Shelby County School Board.
The bill, as amended by Amendment Drafting Code 7487, would establish a nine-member oversight board appointed by the governor and the two legislative speakers. The oversight board would review the LEA’s budget, contracts and facilities; require local board submission of lists of vacant or underutilized properties; and have authority to require reconsideration of certain budget and contract decisions.
Chairman White, who sponsored the bill, described the measure as “a local intervention” aimed at addressing long-running performance and fiscal concerns in Memphis-Shelby County Schools. “We will appoint 9 members on the oversight board that will be appointed by the governor and the 2 speakers,” White said, adding the members would be “highly…
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