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Posted: Sunday - Nov. 8, 2009
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What kids eat
No matter how good the spaghetti with meat sauce looked, it was no honeybun and Cheetos.
Posted: Sunday - Nov. 8, 2009
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County school nutrition director sheds 60 pounds
At 220 pounds, School Nutrition Director Carolyn Childs was tired of telling students to “Do as I say, not as I do.”
Posted: Friday - Nov. 6, 2009
Split over measures for school progress
In the absence of achievement grades worth celebrating, Hamilton County Schools officials this week tried to shift the focus to value-added scores.
Posted: Wednesday - Nov. 4, 2009
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Test scores, grad rates drop
Test scores are down in Hamilton County schools and the district's graduation rate continued a three-year decline, according to the state's annual Report Card released Tuesday.
Posted: Wednesday - Nov. 4, 2009
Teachers, principals start book clubs at schools
They probably won’t argue over Austen, deconstruct Hemingway or decipher Tolkien.
Posted: Tuesday - Nov. 3, 2009
Hamilton County students earn Cs on state report card
The Tennessee Department of Education released the state Report Card today, and Hamilton County students earned straight Cs in academic achievement.
Posted: Tuesday - Nov. 3, 2009
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School officials worried about Ivy Academy
Less than three months after Ivy Academy opened its doors, Hamilton County Schools officials say they have concerns about the charter high school.
Posted: Monday - Nov. 2, 2009
School system adds employees
When Hamilton County Schools officials were putting together the budget for this year, their message was clear: Cut costs; money is tight.
Posted: Monday - Nov. 2, 2009
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Man charged in Catoosa homicide
Catoosa County almost made it an entire year without a homicide.
Posted: Sunday - Nov. 1, 2009
Catoosa County: Man charged in Halloween slaying
A man is being held without bond in the Catoosa County Detention Facility today after allegedly shooting and killing his estranged wife and shooting another man in the arm Saturday night.
Posted: Sunday - Nov. 1, 2009
Hamilton County bracing for C's on report card
Tuesday is the moment of truth for Hamilton County Schools administrators who for months have been warning anyone who will listen that the district's test scores will be lower this year than last.
Posted: Wednesday - Oct. 28, 2009
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Stimulus helping Cleveland wing fly
Construction on a science wing for Cleveland High School received a boon recently in the form of a highly coveted low-interest loan, made possible by federal stimulus funds.
Posted: Tuesday - Oct. 27, 2009
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Teachers’ association to present health insurance options to members today
If members of the local teachers’ association had to vote now whether to approve changes to employee health insurance proposed by the school system, they’d turn it down, they said Monday.
Posted: Friday - Oct. 23, 2009
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Frist has roadmap to make state education tops in Southeast
Former U.S. Sen. Bill Frist thinks Tennessee's education can be No. 1 in the Southeast. And he says it can happen in five years.
Posted: Thursday - Oct. 22, 2009
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Tennessee among nation’s best at keeping junk food out of schools, report says
When you’re near the bottom of nearly every imaginable health ranking, there’s really nowhere to go but up.
Posted: Thursday - Oct. 22, 2009
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Group talks to teens about violence, truancy
Efforts to reduce local gang activity, truancy and youth violence won't do much good if the targeted teens don't realize the help that's out there.
Posted: Wednesday - Oct. 21, 2009
Hamilton County: Interim principal appointed at Hardy Elementary
A retired Hardy Elementary administrator will take leadership of the elementary school on Monday, officials say.
Posted: Tuesday - Oct. 20, 2009
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Alternative teacher certification popular in bad economy
As Plan B's go, becoming a teacher ain't bad.
Posted: Friday - Oct. 16, 2009
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UTC turns pink
Thursday's forecast at UTC called for gray skies, scattered with plenty of pink.
Posted: Thursday - Oct. 15, 2009
Tennessee, Georgia change little on national math test
Tennessee students scored about the same as they did in 2007 on a national math test, while Georgia students earned slightly higher scores, according to results from the nation’s report card.
Posted: Thursday - Oct. 15, 2009
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Schools face hurdles
Hamilton County Schools have taken steps backward in academic achievement and still face large budgetary hurdles, Superintendent Jim Scales said Wednesday.
Posted: Wednesday - Oct. 14, 2009
Negotiators closer to decision on school employee insurance
It took at least four months, but negotiators for Hamilton County's school system and the teachers' union finally agreed to "redesign" some elements of employee health insurance.
Posted: Tuesday - Oct. 13, 2009
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Show makes glee clubs hip
The Choo Choo Kids have always known they were something special.
Posted: Sunday - Oct. 11, 2009
Students to spend fall break in Ethiopia
Forget Dollywood. Fall break will look far more exotic for a group of high schoolers from Signal Mountain who are gearing up for nine days in Ethiopia.
Posted: Sunday - Oct. 11, 2009
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School system, foundation train assistants to be principals
Becoming a school principal is like absorbing several giant doses of culture shock all at once, say those who have done it.
Posted: Saturday - Oct. 10, 2009
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Bledsoe third school system to close for illness
Bledsoe County is now the third Southeast Tennessee school system this week to give students a break right before fall break because so many of them already were home sick.
Posted: Friday - Oct. 9, 2009
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Magic Johnson visits Normal Park
School assembly Thursday morning at Normal Park was anything but normal.
Posted: Thursday - Oct. 8, 2009
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'Magic' Johnson speaks at Normal Park
NBA legend, businessman and philanthropist Earvin “Magic” Johnson stopped by Normal Park Upper School today to talk about staying in school and being successful.
Posted: Thursday - Oct. 8, 2009
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Teachers help students catch up after flu absences
It’s been about three weeks since a severe flu outbreak sidelined half of Emily Martinovic’s class and the Brown Academy kindergarten teacher said she just now feels that her students are back on track.
Posted: Thursday - Oct. 8, 2009
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Students catch up from flu absences
Some North Georgia education officials said the flu hasn't hit their systems as hard as it has struck Hamilton County, so keeping students caught up academically hasn't been as difficult.
Posted: Tuesday - Oct. 6, 2009
Some say truancy prevention too tough
There is a fine line between truancy prevention and an overzealous focus on attendance, and some parents say the local school system isn't doing a very good job knowing the difference.
Posted: Sunday - Oct. 4, 2009
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Schools to take Web pay for lunch
Parents soon will be able to monitor their children's school lunch, even when they don't pack it themselves.
Posted: Sunday - Oct. 4, 2009
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Chartering a new course
One of the few pieces of art adorning the walls at Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy is a colorful abstract work in the front office with a Victor Hugo quotation: "Nothing is so powerful as an idea whose time has come."
Posted: Friday - Oct. 2, 2009
Dalton swine flu death 'heightens awareness'
DALTON, Ga. -- Michael Starks was waiting to pick up his 7-year-old granddaughter from City Park Elementary School on Thursday when he learned that a second-grader there had died Wednesday from the flu.
Posted: Thursday - Oct. 1, 2009
2 elementary principals leaving
Hamilton County Schools now has two elementary principal positions open with two school leaders leaving their posts less than two months into the school year.
Posted: Wednesday - Sept. 30, 2009
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A voice in Washington
The recent big ideas in education coming out of Washington, D.C., don’t work so well for small, rural school systems like many in Southeast Tennessee, officials say.
Posted: Tuesday - Sept. 29, 2009
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Teachers-school system negotiations canceled
A scheduled health benefits negotiation between the local school system and teachers' association was canceled Monday and replaced with a closed-door "brainstorming"
Posted: Tuesday - Sept. 29, 2009
Work-based learning program gains momentum
Quick work sanding fenders landed Aaron Burks a job at Southern Customs Collision and Restoration.
Posted: Monday - Sept. 28, 2009
Teacher bonus pay plan stalled over funding
Until last week, Hamilton County School administrators thought they had a plan to pay teachers extra for performing well in typically undesirable jobs or for having a high level of education.
Posted: Thursday - Sept. 24, 2009
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Schools struggle to find time for PE
In a contest for the most important school subject, PE is never going to win.
Posted: Wednesday - Sept. 23, 2009
Several schools close
Continuing rain forced five North Georgia school systems to close today and forecasters say there’s more wet weather on the way.
Posted: Tuesday - Sept. 22, 2009
Several schools close in wake of flooding
Hamilton County Schools officials are waiting until this morning to decide whether to close any schools in the wake of significant area flooding.
Posted: Tuesday - Sept. 22, 2009
School officials, teachers' union discuss health insurance, make no decisions
Nearly two months after options were presented for changes to the local school system's health insurance plan, the district and the teachers' union haven't reached an agreement on how to cut the district's fastest-growing expense.
Posted: Friday - Sept. 18, 2009
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Howard addressing state directives
Hamilton County School officials already have had one meeting and made one quarterly report to the state education department on the progress of Howard School of Academics and Technology, officials said.
Posted: Friday - Sept. 18, 2009
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No rest for water weary
By the time George Baribeault realized the rain was causing severe flooding, water already was halfway up the window on the inside of his motel room.
Posted: Thursday - Sept. 17, 2009
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All but one pass math tests at Signal Mountain
All but one of the 69 Signal Mountain students who took math classes last year from a nondegreed, uncertified teacher’s aide have passed competency tests.
Posted: Tuesday - Sept. 15, 2009
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Block scheduling may go on school chopping block
The county's public school system wants to pinch pennies wherever possible, so officials are examining whether a change in schedules would save money.
Posted: Tuesday - Sept. 15, 2009
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Gravitte takes new job at East Hamilton
Leaving one brand-new middle/high school for another, Eddie Gravitte reported this morning to his new job as assistant principal at East Hamilton School.
Posted: Tuesday - Sept. 15, 2009
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School board retreat to be held here, not in Nashville
The Hamilton County Board of Education won't have to travel far for this year's board retreat.
Posted: Monday - Sept. 14, 2009
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Hamilton County: Gravitte headed to East Hamilton
Eddie Gravitte has been placed as an assistant principal at East Hamilton School.
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