Bartlett News

While leaders in suburban cities talk of setting up their own school systems, Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell said Saturday he's not sure those municipal districts would have a claim on the countywide funds that are doled out for education based on average daily attendance.

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Hundreds of people packed Bartlett Baptist Church Monday night eager to learn more about the possibility of a seperate Bartlett City School District.

A 22-year-old man questioned by police after a traffic stop this morning, hid his identity from officers, giving them his brother's name.

Permit Date: Applied February 2012 Owner: The Soulsville Foundation Tenant: The Soulsville Foundation Details: The Soulsville Foundation has filed a $4 million building permit application with the city-county Office of Construction Code Enforcement for a 15,000-square-foot, one-story, multipurpose building at The Soulsville Charter School.

When Bartlett officials hold a public meeting tonight on the feasibility study for municipal schools, they will be armed with information from comparable systems on the other side of the state.

Last month, former alderman Linda Carter talked to reporters after being named interim mayor.

In one of the more anonymous efforts in an interesting legislative session in Nashville, there is apparently some discussion of requiring school systems to charge nothing less than fair market value if they rent or sell a school building to a charter school.

Editor's Note: This is a Daily News series featuring past winners of the Bobby Dunavant Public Service Awards, which annually honor one elected and one non-elected government official.

David Pickler works his day job from his laptop during many Shelby County School board meetings, giving the impression he is either bored or disinterested in the future of the unified district.

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The Memphis City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday afternoon to annex the unincorporated area of Shelby County that's been the center of a heated debate.

You are enjoying lunch with your best friend at Applebee's Restaurant on Stage Road in Bartlett, TN.

The life sciences sector is getting a heavy push from John Threadgill , president of the Bartlett Area Chamber of Commerce.

Bartlett officials will head out on their own education field trip to the Tri-Cities region of East Tennessee early next week.

Martavious Jones is a member of the newly unified Shelby Schools transition team and feels Representative Curry Todd's bill for allowing school buildings to be transferred to suburban districts is unfair.

State Rep. Curry Todd, R-Collierville, filed a bill in Nashville today that would transfer county school buildings to new municipal school districts.

The Transition Planning Commission writing the plan for public school consolidation resumes its public listening tour Monday, when members hope to reassure parents not to expect large-scale student transfers after the schools are merged.

Memphis, Tn - Bartlett, Germantown and Collierville High Schools are all located in their respective suburban cities.

The National College of Business and Technology is in the very early stages of the planning process for its new brick-and-mortar campus in Memphis.