Tonight’s Memphis City Council meeting might provide some closure to the ongoing city school funding crisis.
Memphis mayor A C Wharton, Memphis City Schools (MCS) superintendent Kriner Cash, and City Council chair Harold Collins presented a proposal to the Council’s education committee in which the city would pay $20 million to the school system by May 1st.
The city would then pay the district another $20 million by July 1st, to be followed by another $10 million payment October 1st. Under the agreement, voted unanimously by the education committee, the issues involved in litigation between the city and the city schools are still on the table.
