MEMPHIS, Tenn — It looks like the Shelby County Democratic and Republican parties are backing off plans to start having partisan elections for local school boards.
Last year, Tennessee lawmakers passed a law allowing school board elections in Tennessee to be partisan.
Some local groups then pushed to make that happen in Shelby County with both parties going along, but that sparked opposition from parents on both sides of the aisle and from all seven school systems.
Members of the systems resoundingly said schools in Shelby County should be immune from having partisan politics injected into the process.
Now, leaders from both parties say they are planning to tell the Shelby County election commission they want to keep school board elections non-partisan.
