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Memphis 2026 school board election: live updates

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Sign up for Chalkbeat Tennessee’s free newsletter to keep up with statewide education policy and Memphis-Shelby County Schools. Memphis voters will elect four school board members today , but it’s unclear how much power the local representatives will have over district decisions in the next four years. Two incumbent candidates, Michelle McKissack in District 1 and Joyce Dorse Coleman in District 9, are running with no challengers after securing the Democratic nomination in the board’s first partisan primary in May . See which district you’re voting in using Chalkbeat’s interactive map tool . District 6 voters will choose between Democratic nominee T.L. Harris, who led a youth violence prevention program after a criminal conviction , and independent challenger Frederick Dewayne Tappan, a local pastor. Harris won the primary by fewer than 200 votes. Leigh Ann Scarborough, a Memphis school librarian, is running against primary winner Tanya Frey, a longtime local lawyer, in District 8 . Th

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