Bible in the Schools, a nonprofit that funds Bible education courses in Hamilton County Schools, held its annual luncheon Monday at the Chattanooga Convention …
While the nation suffers from a shortage of early childhood educators, Hamilton County Schools and the city of Chattanooga are trying to create a solution: a c…
A new school-based health clinic at Howard Connect Academy is in the works — and it'll be a first for Hamilton County.
The Hamilton County Education Association is holding an election for officers, and voting closes Friday.
A first grade teacher at Wallace A. Smith Elementary in Ooltewah has been indicted on sexual abuse charges against multiple minors.
As part of an ongoing effort to expose children to different walks of life, students at Girls Preparatory School toured The Howard School on Friday.
Hamilton County public school officials continue to lay the groundwork to hire 76 coaches to help students with social, emotional and academic development, as …
Fees to participate in activities like sports, choir or band vary within the Hamilton County school district.
Though Tennessee school districts usually adopt a new math curriculum every six years, the pandemic caused a two-year delay in that process
A lawsuit filed against Hamilton County Schools accuses administrators of negligence after students at East Hamilton Middle School received sexually-explicit e…
After being placed on leave pending an investigation into an alleged assault on a student by a third-party security officer, Brainerd High School Principal Cry…
It's budget season for Hamilton County Schools, and the financial decisions made in the coming months will impact students for the next year and beyond.
Lucille O'Neal, mother of retired NBA star Shaquille O'Neal, spoke Wednesday at the Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy Odyssey luncheon, where she discussed …
Culinary students at The Howard School have a new commercial-grade kitchen where they can gain real-world experience in the food service industry.
Friends of Hamilton, a group that unsuccessfully sought to incorporate a new city in northeast Hamilton County in 2012, has launched a petition for a new eleme…
In August 2021, Tyner Academy students staged a walkout to protest the school's poor conditions. But a year and a half later, students walked out for a differe…
In Chattooga County, Georgia, graduating eighth grade is celebrated as if it were high school graduation.
As the county and nation suffer from a nursing shortage, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is launching an accelerated nursing degree program to get m…
Following a slew of violent incidents at East Hamilton Middle School, the most recent being a fight Thursday between two students that resulted in one of the s…
Some students from East Ridge High, Hixson High and East Ridge Middle schools will attend different schools in the fall because the Hamilton County Board of Ed…
More than 160 teachers at Hamilton County Schools who had their stipends unexpectedly revoked will soon have their pay restored.
A proposed resolution requesting the Tennessee General Assembly amend the third-grade retention law failed to win support of the Hamilton County school board T…
Posted in a hallway of the Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy is an ACT scoreboard — of sorts — tracking the school's average composite against others in the…
Hamilton County school board member Rhonda Thurman, R-Hixson, has come under fire after posting a gang rape joke on her Facebook page.
At Hamilton County Schools, cellphone-use policies are currently decided at the school level, but some school board members are looking to change that.
The Hamilton County Board of Education is set to vote Thursday on a resolution requesting the Tennessee General Assembly to amend the third-grade retention law…
Hundreds of thousands of students across the nation have disappeared from public schools since the onset of the pandemic, an analysis from The Associated Press…
The Hamilton County school district unveiled a new strategic plan Thursday evening at its annual State of the System event. The plan prioritizes student well-b…
Two students have been expelled from McCallie School after administrators became aware of a video the boys posted using racial slurs, making monkey noises and …
The topic of discipline and student behavior has been the subject of national and local conversation as teachers leave the profession, some citing student beha…
Serving people with disabilities starts by ending assumptions about what they can and can't do, Tennessee Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabili…
Brainerd High School Principal Crystal Sorrells was placed on leave as officials investigate an alleged assault on a student by a third-party security officer …
A small crowd gathered at Brainerd High School on Monday evening to offer feedback on Hamilton County Schools' plans to rezone areas of East Ridge and Brainerd…
As school budget season approaches -- this year with a new state funding formula -- the Hamilton County school district is taking a student-centered approach t…
Human rights activist Angela Davis spoke Tuesday at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where she discussed her life as a political activist and the fu…
A gym instructor at a Chattanooga YMCA location who also worked as a special education teacher at East Hamilton Middle School has been arrested and charged wit…
Hamilton County Schools officials are addressing a sewage leak in the fourth and fifth grade bathrooms at Wallace Smith Elementary.
The Hamilton County school district's $13 million contract with its busing provider, First Student, is set to expire at the end of June. And though the distric…
After unexpectedly losing special compensation they were expecting, about two dozen Hamilton County teachers attended Thursday night's school board meeting to …
Class size limits for K-12 schools in Tennessee would no longer be state-regulated under new legislation filed by Sen. Jon Lundberg, R-Bristol, on Tuesday.
While Tennessee legislators are poised to revisit a law requiring students to learn to read in third grade or risk being held back, the Hamilton County school …
Launched this past fall in Memphis and Nashville-area school districts, Tennessee's education savings account program now has 343 students enrolled at 44 priva…
Despite the cold, students at Chattanooga School for the Liberal Arts sat outside in the school's brand new amphitheater Friday morning to take part in a speci…
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Chattanooga State Community College have partnered to create a new bachelor's degree program in applied leadersh…
Teachers working in hard-to-staff and high-needs schools receive extra compensation for the unique challenges that come with the job.
Inadequate child care costs Hamilton County $94.4 million annually in lost earnings and revenue, according to a new study by Tennesseans for Quality Early Educ…
The majority of Hamilton County voters believe the school district's quality is "fair" or "poor" at best and would support a tax increase to provide additional…
There are common reasons some students might think they're not cut out for college. They may be a first-generation American, or maybe their family can't afford…
Hamilton County high schoolers are scoring below state and national averages on the ACT college entrance exam.
Historically underserved students at Hamilton County Schools are underperforming their peers no matter what school they attend.