Following up on the post yesterday that broke down the composition of the transition team and the finalists for the County Commission's seven appointments to the 23-person unified school board, we can now gander at the 44 people who are charged with guiding merger of Shelby County's schools.
- Gender: There are 29 men and 15 women.
- Race: There are 26 white members and 18 black members.
- Geography: 24 Memphis to 20 suburban, though three Memphis residents straddle suburban borders and two suburban residents are in unincorporated areas outside of municipalities.
- Public school parents: Just one on the transition team but 10 of the 23 board members (NOTE: an earlier version overlooked Louis Padgett, a Shelby County Schools principal who lives in Memphis and has children in SCS).
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