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As a result, massive white flight occurred in Memphis City Schools. In 1973, the school district had 71,000 White students. In a period of four years, 40,000 of the White students left. [5] In November 2009, Memphis City Schools won a grant of $90 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The gift of more than $90 million from Gates ...
Kingsbury High School, also known as Kingsbury Middle/High School, [3] is a public high school in Memphis, Tennessee and a part of Shelby County Schools. It was previously in Memphis City Schools . In 2018 the SCS administration suspended principal Terry Ross, accusing him of misconduct. [ 4 ]
A massive panic ensued. The same trains and steamboats that had brought thousands into Memphis, in five days carried away more than 25,000 refugees, more than half of the city's population. [34] On August 23, the Board of Health finally declared a yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, and the city collapsed, hemorrhaging its population.
Memphis City Councilmembers passed three tax increases Tuesday to balance the about $858 million fiscal year 2025 budget. The city property tax will increase by 18.2%, but that is lower than Mayor ...
The city of Memphis is split between two congressional districts. The western three-fourths of the city, including downtown, forms the core of the 9th District, which has been represented by Democrat Steve Cohen since 2007. Cohen was the first white Democrat to represent a significant portion of Memphis in more than 40 years.
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Humes Preparatory Academy Middle School, formerly the L. C. Humes High School, is a middle school located in Memphis, Tennessee. It has also been known as North Side High School and as L.C. Humes Junior High School. It was open as a high school from the 1930s through 1967 and later became a middle school in the Memphis City Schools district.