TRENTON, Ga. -- Kimmy Harriod stood alone in court the day they took her baby away.
Some Signal Mountain parents say they're relieved that their principal now can retire without a blemished record.
Careyee Bell already has two biological and two adopted kids of her own. But that didn't stop her from picking up two youngsters in need through Dade County Schools' mentorship program.
Signal Mountain Middle/High School Principal Tom McCullough was suspended without pay just weeks before his scheduled retirement.
Superintendent Rick Smith has suspended without pay Signal Mountain Middle-High School Principal Tom McCullough just weeks shy of his retirement.
They say they didn't get into their jobs for money or recognition, but several Hamilton County public school teachers, administrators and support staffers enjoyed the spotlight Monday.
Once they’ve read Romeo and Juliet, ninth graders in Carmen Veller’s English class begin a project to help synthesize what they’ve been reading.
In his mind, Martel Smith sees the reason he graduated this year as simple. It’s the same reason he’s stayed out of trouble and the same reason he’ll go to college in the fall.
Signal Mountain Middle-High School Principal Tom McCullough will retire at the end of this school year, he announced this morning.
Demolition is nearly complete on a fast-paced project to open a science, technology, engineering and math school in Hamilton County by August. But now a lack of cash stands to slow construction.
Walker County Schools officials say they had no choice but to lay off about 50 teachers this year as Georgia continues to tighten the reins on education funding, leaving local school systems to make grim choices on what public education in the state will look like.
Trustees will undergo a national search to find a successor for Girls Preparatory School Headmaster Stanley R. "Randy" Tucker Jr., who will retire in two years.
Options for students to leave their zoned schools in search of a better education could narrow as the Hamilton County Board of Education considers phasing out a decade-old school transfer program.
East Ridge Middle School officials insist their school is a safe environment for children despite a 13-year-old girl's allegations that she was raped in a bathroom.
Fourteen-year-olds Riley Tucker and Elissa Chandler have more to worry about than average eighth-grade girls.
After watching Jamal Lett explain his passion for helping underprivileged students, organizers of TEACH/Here, Chattanooga’s teacher residency program, knew the effort was more than just about recruiting qualified educators.
Hamilton County Schools Superintendent Rick Smith announced on Monday reassignments and appointments for several public school principals.
The robots are a finicky bunch. Everything about them is fragile and fleeting. PVC pipe connects tiny plastic propellers to soldered wires, which have been known to short out.
Ten aspiring school principals wrapped up a year of intense training and mentorship as the second class to graduate from the Principal Leadership Academy, a partnership among the Public Education Foundation, the Hamilton County Department of Education, the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
A world of possibilities awaits five area high school students awarded one of the nation’s most prestigious and competitive college scholarships.
For a seventh-grader, Jada Brunson knows a lot about the New York Stock Exchange.
A Hamilton County teacher investigated in a possible state exam cheating case has been cleared by state and local officials.
East Ridge officials are holding a public hearing to discuss the possibility of taking their sewer lines back from the Hamilton County Water and Wastewater Authority.
Mike Harvey, a lifelong Signal Mountain resident, will launch a write-in campaign to challenge Signal Mountain dentist Jonathan Welch for the District 2 seat on the Hamilton County Board of Education.
Mike Harvey, an anesthetist at Erlanger Health System, has launched a write-in campaign for the Hamilton County Board of Education District 2 seat in response to a recent drinking scandal among teachers and students at Signal Mountain Middle-High School.
Standardized tests have put pressure on teachers, school districts and states for years. But this year, some of that pressure is on the backs of Tennessee students.
Tom McConnell, director of Hamilton County School's Junior Reserve Office Training Corps, is back on the job effective this week.
Seven Signal Mountain Middle-High School staff members were suspended for consuming alcohol while chaperoning a school-sanctioned senior class trip to the Bahamas last month.
Col. Tom McConnell, director of Hamilton County School’s Junior Reserve Office Training Corps, is back on the job, effective this week.
Seven staff members at Signal Mountain Middle-High School were suspended because of violating policy on the use of alcohol on a recent senior class trip.
Red Bank High School could get the Normal Park touch. Talk has circulated for years about opening a Normal Park high school to continue the successful program that makes Normal Park the county's best-performing school.
After two efforts to stall the measure, calls for more information and a plea from parents to hold off, a controversial rezoning package for schools in East Hamilton County was approved Thursday evening.
Hamilton County Schools passed a controversial rezoning plan tonight that covers schools in the eastern part of the county
Brainerd High School Principal Charles Joynes, who has led the troubled school for three years and recently spearheaded an effort to reach young black men there, will be moved from his post this year.
Beverly Boss, a kindergarten and first grade teacher at Chattanooga Charter School of Excellence, was named a finalist in the Tennessee Charter Schools Association Teacher of the Year Award.
After taking all the black students out of class, the black teachers, janitors and cafeteria workers at Cleveland High School in Los Angeles took turns telling the teens that they loved them, that education was important and that they could have more in their lives.
In a 1,000-plus page biology textbook used to school Hamilton County students, the origin of human life takes up a mere chapter. The chapter, one of nearly 40, doesn’t show the well-known picture of a monkey evolving to man, but it does say primates evolved.
Hamilton County Schools will beef up its school-based counseling services next year with the addition of two therapists/case managers. The school system currently has three therapists in four schools to help students who have emotional, social and behavioral issues.
Georgia's high school graduation rate dropped more than 13 percentage points under a new, tougher measurement.
Several weeks into discussions over a rezoning plan proposed for schools in east Hamilton County, parents fear they’re nearing a deadlock with school administrators.
Two incumbents are giving up their seats on the Hamilton County Board of Education. Chip Baker, who represents District 2, and Linda Mosley, who represents District 7, picked up papers to run for re-election in the August race, but neither returned them by Thursday’s qualification deadline.
Two organizations have expressed interest in opening Hamilton County charter schools in the fall of 2013 under the state’s Achievement School District.
District 10 State Senator Andy Berke, D-Chattanooga, has been named the Tennessee PTA 2012 Outstanding Legislator of the Year.
Two incumbents will give up their seats on the Hamilton County Board of Education.
Two-and-a-half-year-old Rowan Murray used to get so frustrated she would scream and throw tantrums, even breaking her mother's nose in such a fit.
The girls were called to the auditorium over the crackling public address system. Five minutes later the boys made their way to the gym. Neither group knew what was coming, but for Brainerd High School Principal Charles Joynes this was his moment to step in and father.
If next year’s proposed $383 million Hamilton County Schools budget is approved in its current form, more than $4 million in staff budget requests will go unfilled.
Hamilton County Schools officials are proposing a total budget of $383 million for the next fiscal year -- about $15 million more in spending than the current budget year.
Three local public school teachers will be honored later this week as 2012 Hamilton County Teachers of the Year.
