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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hamilton County Schools have taken steps backward in academic achievement and still face large budgetary hurdles, Superintendent Jim Scales said Wednesday.
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.
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.
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.
NBA legend, businessman and philanthropist Earvin “Magic” Johnson stopped by Normal Park Upper School today to talk about staying in school and being successful.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
A scheduled health benefits negotiation between the local school system and teachers' association was canceled Monday and replaced with a closed-door "brainstorming"
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.