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Happy Friday from Amelia at Chalkbeat Indiana.

Hundreds of miles away in Tennessee, lawmakers passed a bill creating an appointed oversight body over Memphis-Shelby County schools that in many ways mirrors the creation of the Indianapolis Public Education Corporation here in Indy. But in other ways, the legislation is quite different. That leads your inbox today.

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