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Knox County Schools to Cut More Than 100 Employees
Those cuts include 57 teachers.
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Those cuts include 57 teachers.
An amendment under consideration would expand the scope of who can qualify to use tax dollars for private school expenses.
Knox Prep faces challenges across multiple fronts, including enrollment.
District leadership successfully nominated 12 people to serve on the committee, including Knoxville NAACP President Rev. Sam Brown, who spoke out against the co...
Thursday night, school board members voted 6-3 to appoint Rev. Sam Brown and 11 others to the district’s Charter Review Committee.
The proposed policy priority is in response to legislation state lawmakers considered earlier this year that would allow school districts the option of refusing...
A member of the Irish girls’ state championship-qualifying team, Ava Holmes initially thought some lingering back pain late this summer likely stemmed from perh...
The Knox County School Board is weighing whether to take a formal stance against a revived bill that could allow Tennessee districts to deny undocumented studen...
Knox County and state leaders are urging voters to reject Knoxville’s proposed $47 million sales tax increase, arguing the measure would add to residents’ finan...
A new state legislative advisory committee met Thursday in Nashville to explore whether the state’s current 180-day school calendar should be replaced by a more...
Knox County Schools is preparing for a busy start to the 2025–26 school year, as officials implement major budget cuts and introduce new policies aimed at enhan...
The Tennessee General Assembly approved $165.5 million in next year’s budget for the new building, which is the largest investment ever funded for a single high...
The district now exceeds the state standard for the percentage of students with disabilities spending greater than 80 percent of their day in a general educatio...
The school’s principal Jason Webster submitted the nomination, along with an announcement that Wallen wants to make a $1.2 million dollar donation to enhance th...
Mayor Jacobs has known McMahon for decades through his hall of fame career as the wrestler Kane in the World Wrestling Federation. McMahon and her husband Vince...
More than 75 percent of families said they support the continuation of early release or half days. However, about 53 percent of parents said the shorter days po...
The Knox County School Board voted to move forward with a plan for the creation of a new K-8 school that would serve 1,600 students in the Western Heights area ...
The Knox County Schools Board of Education voted to keep the district’s first public charter school open for another ten-year term Thursday night, but not witho...
The Knox County Schools Board of Education is expected to decide the future of Emerald Academy on Thursday, following a recent recommendation from the district’...
According to Knox County Schools’ Assistant Superintendent of Student Success Dr. Andrew Brown, students with disabilities have demonstrated notable improvement...
Knox County Schools (KCS) Board of Education members unanimously approved proposed revisions to district guidelines on discrimination and harassment at Thursday...
Members of the Knox County Schools Board of Education continued to debate proposed revisions to district guidelines on discrimination and harassment at Monday’s...
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Fibers and Composites Manufacturing Facility and Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation now have a ...
University of Tennessee (UT) System President Randy Boyd recently visited several high schools across the state to highlight the system’s academic programm...
Knox County Schools (KCS) leaders continued to hear from parents about school safety concerns at Thursday’s regular Board of Education meeting, following last m...
The University of Tennessee at Knoxville achieved “high rankings across multiple disciplines” in the latest U.S. News and World Report Best Colleges report, a r...
Knox County Schools Superintendent Dr. Jon Rysewyk announced Monday that the district will provide assistance to school systems impacted by flooding from Hurric...
The University of Tennessee at Knoxville has appointed mathematics professor Dr. Vasileios Maroulas to serve as associate vice chancellor and director of the&nb...
The Tennessee Comptroller’s Office has released two investigative reports related to Farragut High School in Knox County Schools System (KCS) after officials th...
The Knox County Board of Education approved new AI guidelines at Thursday's regular meeting. The board also heard comments from community members about a new st...
Knox County Schools says the district has reduced teacher vacancies to near-zero levels through a “cultural shift” in the hiring process that simplifies the pro...
Following recent discussions between board members and with parents in the community about their preferences, the board decided to do away with two “early relea...
A recent statewide survey from the University of Tennessee’s Institute of American Civics suggests there's a critical need to improve civics education in Tennes...
Knox County Schools officials highlighted new security measures and investments to enhance school safety this school year as part of the district’s ongoing “Saf...
A delegation from FIFA (International Federation of Association Football) recently visited the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, as part of the FIFA Pitch Res...
The University of Tennessee-Knoxville's Haslam College of Business has once again received national recognition for its programming relating to supply chain man...
The Knox County Board of Education voted Thursday to revise district policies regarding the removal of books containing sexual or age-inappropriate content from...
This week’s release of state-level Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP) results is providing some good news for the 44,000 children who attend publ...
A proposal to ban books depicting sexual imagery in Knox County Schools failed in a 4-2 vote. The board discussed compliance with a new state law set to take ef...
Knox County Board of Education officials discussed banning books that depict sex at Monday’s school board work session.
The Knox County Schools Board of Education unanimously passed a resolution affirming that school resource officers (SRO) and law enforcement officers will remai...
Knox County parents will be notified if their children are at risk of retention under new state reading requirements, with options for retesting or summer inter...
Two members of the Knox County Schools (KCS) Board of Education are proposing competing resolutions to push back on a recently passed law to allow armed teacher...
Tawanya Figgs says she felt her 11-year-old son Ta’vion Wilson needed a change going into his sixth-grade school year.Figgs says the traditional public schools ...
The Knox County School (KCS) Board approved a historic $39 million investment to raise the salaries of teachers and school staff across the district.The vote wa...
Knox County School (KCS) leaders are proposing a historic $39 million investment to increase the salaries of educators and school staff.The spending proposal fo...
Students at Knoxville’s Farragut High School will be able to earn a full elective course credit in Bible studies next school year.Tennessee is one of several st...
Tiffany Matthews says a team of teachers oversees her son’s individualized education program (IEP) for autism at Knoxville’s New Hopewell Elementary School.Matt...
Tennessee State Representative Gloria Johnson, D-Knoxville, logged on to social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, at 10 PM Friday night to produce a ...
Knox County School Board members failed to pass a resolution Thursday night that would have denounced Governor Bill Lee’s Education Freedom Scholarship Act. Th...
Knox County School Board members are split over Governor Bill Lee’s proposal to let families across the state use taxpayer dollars to attend private school.Gove...
A decade ago, it would have been hard to picture Janet Bravo working at a public charter school, much less leading the startup of one.Bravo says back then she h...
Knox County School Board members voted to hold off implementing a proposed change to school harassment language some fear would remove protections for LGBTQ+ st...
A long-awaited solution may finally address school overcrowding in the Farragut area of Knox County.At Monday night’s school board work session, Knox County Sch...
Three members of the Knox County Board of Education continued to work against efforts to establish a public charter school with a history of successfully servin...
Multiple members of the Knox County Board of Education who unsuccessfully opposed Knoxville Preparatory School’s approval in April, are continuing to make it mo...
Knox County Schools announced more reforms are coming for the district’s special education program.Assistant Superintendent of Student Success Jason Myers unvei...
The Knox County Schools (KCS) Department of School Culture is aiming to make stronger connections with students who access the district’s mental health resource...
Members of the Knox County Schools Board of Education unanimously voted to approve board chair Betsy Henderson’s resolution to follow all five recommendations m...
The Knox County Schools board of education approved a policy to allow students to leave school for an hour to earn elective credits for religious courses.The 7-...
A “deep dive” review of student support services by Knox County Schools (KCS) found challenges providing resources to special education students and English lan...
Knox County Schools (KCS) Superintendent Jon Rysewyk unveiled a new strategic plan at Monday’s school board meeting to improve schools in the district’s Region ...
Knox County Schools (KCS) Superintendent Jon Rysewyk unveiled a new strategic plan at Monday’s school board meeting to improve schools in the district’s Region ...
Knox County School Board Member Susan Horn (District 5) provided the tie breaking vote at Thursday’s special called meeting to approve the county’s second publi...
Supporters of the proposed Knoxville Preparatory School will learn Thursday if having every school board member in attendance improves their chances of approval...
Katherine Bike (District 4) accused Chattanooga Prep Sophomore Theo Pedro Orozco of being a pawn for Knox Prep supporters when he referred to his mother as "ill...
The charter evaluation team for Knox County Schools is recommending approval for a second public charter school. The team formally presented its findings to the...
The education chair of the Chattanooga NAACP wants her organization’s Knoxville branch to reconsider its opposition to proposed public charter school Knoxville ...
Tennessee’s private school voucher program, currently limited to eligible students attending public schools in Memphis and Nashville, would expand to all four o...
Thursday morning two House Democrats used what would otherwise be a routine vote to reauthorize the Tennessee Public Charter School Commission to take swipes at...
Each year the Knox County Board of Education provides members of the Tennessee General Assembly with a list of legislative priorities the board hopes legislator...
School districts across the state received 23 letters of intent this month for applications to open new public charter schools next year. That’s the first step ...
The job wasn’t even one for which he had applied, and after three years and 13 wins, it hardly seemed destined to result in one of the most remarkable coaching ...
In a televised debate on a wide range of topics, Democratic Tennessee House District 18 Candidate Gregory Kaplan proposed a drastic change that would put the fu...
In January, Tennessee announced that it was expanding its “grow your own programs” to recruit and train teachers by developing the new apprenticeship model, whi...