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Tennessee Lawmakers Lift Ban On Municipal Schools

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If the governor does not veto a bill passed Monday, then the suburbs outside of Memphis will be able to restart a process to open municipal schools which they originally began in 2012. Last August, all six suburbs passed referendums to open their own municipal school districts, only to have those referendums voided by U.S. District Judge Samuel "Hardy" Mays. The new legislation will allow each suburb to hold another referendum on whether or not they want to open municipal schools. Suburban leaders have said their goal is to have their own separate school districts up and running in time for the 2014-2015 school year. State law requires any town that opens its own school district to also fund that district with a fifteen-cent increase on the property tax, or an identical amount of money raised some other way. All six of the suburbs outside of Memphis passed a half-cent sales tax increase at the same time they passed referendums to open municipal schools. Those sales tax increases were

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