The Chattanooga City Council will delay a vote concerning its position on state oversight plans for five struggling Hamilton County schools.
The Tennessee Department of Education has called for the creation of a special mini-district for Orchard Knob Elementary, Orchard Knob Middle, Woodmore Elementary, Dalewood Middle and Brainerd High.
Councilman Russell Gilbert, who sponsored a formal request for the state “to slow it down,” said he wants to give the Hamilton County Board of Education a chance to discuss the matter first.
He called for the one-week delay at the request of his school board representative Karitsa Mosley Jones, Gilbert said.
“I will honor her for that reason, but I still feel the way I still feel about that we are asking them to slow it down,” Gilbert said.