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Posted: Tuesday - Nov. 24, 2009
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Online civics lesson
Ian Norwood always wondered why paychecks had an itemized deduction for medical expenses.
Posted: Tuesday - Nov. 24, 2009
School ‘wish list’ long, funding short
After local school officials presented the Hamilton County Board of Education with a plan to consolidate seven elementary schools and build several more, few board members disagreed with the idea in theory.
Posted: Saturday - Nov. 21, 2009
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School board updates criminal background policy
Hamilton County Board of Education members decided Friday that the school system should be more careful about checking potential employees' backgrounds.
Posted: Saturday - Nov. 21, 2009
5 Creative Arts students suspended
Five Chattanooga Center for the Creative Arts students have been suspended after two separate incidents of drugs on campus.
Posted: Friday - Nov. 20, 2009
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Author talks about book based on Signal Mountain
When Joy Jordan-Lake lived on Signal Mountain, the Ku Klux Klan was alive and well.
Posted: Thursday - Nov. 19, 2009
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Graduation summitt
If high school students fear for their lives when they walk to and from school, chances are they're not too concerned about studying for a math test.
Posted: Wednesday - Nov. 18, 2009
Raising grad rate focus of summit
Kids don’t usually drop out until high school, but the warning signs crop up as early as preschool, local officials have determined.
Posted: Monday - Nov. 16, 2009
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Bradley schools score better than expected
After the frenzy of springtime test prep, school administrators usually spend late summer and first semester digesting test scores and diagnosing what went right or wrong.
Posted: Friday - Nov. 13, 2009
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Districts key in race for school funding
Individual school districts will play a significant role in determining whether Georgia receives a portion of the $4 billion Race to the Top federal funds.
Posted: Thursday - Nov. 12, 2009
Tennessee, Georgia schools seek stimulus money
Individual school districts will play a significant role in determining whether Tennessee and Georgia receive a portion of the $4 billion Race to the Top federal funds.
Posted: Thursday - Nov. 12, 2009
Tennessee, Georgia learn final rules for $4 billion in federal education funds
Individual school districts will play a significant role in determining whether Tennessee and Georgia receive a portion of the $4 billion Race to the Top federal funds.
Posted: Thursday - Nov. 12, 2009
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Board to review elementary charter school application
After opening a charter middle and high school this year, Hamilton County might get an elementary version by next year.
Posted: Wednesday - Nov. 11, 2009
State releases audit on Signal Mountain uncertified teacher
A state audit investigating the hiring of an uncertified teacher's assistant to teach math classes last year at Signal Mountain Middle-High School says former principal Eddie Gravitte mostly is to blame.
Posted: Tuesday - Nov. 10, 2009
State releases audit on Signal Mountain uncertified teacher’s aide
The state department of education this afternoon released an internal audit investigating the hiring last year of an uncertified teacher’s assistant to teach math classes at Signal Mountain Middle-High School.
Posted: Tuesday - Nov. 10, 2009
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Negotiations with teachers at standstill
Nine months of negotiating changes to employee health insurance came to a standstill Monday night as representatives for the local school system and teachers' union could not agree on the only option presented so far.
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
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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: 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: 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.
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