After a tumultuous year for education in Hamilton County, a community of teachers, administrators, legislators and stakeholders from every part of the county gathered Tuesday night to do something hard – listen to one another.
In a Study Hall forum hosted by the Times Free Press, four experts in public K-12 education wrangled with some of the thorniest questions surrounding public schooling in Chattanooga, including how to best recruit and retain highly effective teachers.
Study Hall
For more information on the Study Hall forum, visit studyhallchatt.com. The forum will be broadcast on WUTC 88.1 FM at 8 p.m. Thursday.
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The topic was painfully relevant after the release of a report last month showing 30 percent of Hamilton County’s public school teachers are considered “least effective” by state measures, and many of those teachers are in predominantly poor and minority classrooms.