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Tennessee education officials outlined a host of potential personnel changes in a 250-page promise they made to the federal government to turn around the state’s chronically failing schools.
Chattanooga’s Howard School of Academics and Technology is one of 13 schools targeted by the state for inclusion in the new state-run “Achievement School District.” The district gives authority to state Education Commissioner Tim Webb to remove and replace superintendents, school board members and any person deemed to have contributed to a school’s failure.
Hamilton County Board of Education member George Ricks, who represents Howard’s district, said he is not too concerned.
“I think we’re doing a great job here. I think we’ll be all right,” he said. “I’m going to be supportive of the school system whether they remove me or keep me. I can’t control that.”