Information from WYSH Radio
The Roane County School Board will have a work session at 6:30 p.m. today (Thursday, April 6) to revisit an earlier decision to begin the process of consolidating the five high schools in Roane County into one larger school.
The work session will be in the auditorium of Roane County High School in Kingston.
The board is meeting at the high school due to what is expected to be a large crowd. The proposal to consolidate the high schools has met with vocal resistance, especially from parents of students attending Midway and Oliver Springs high schools, who say the proposal would seriously affect travel time to and from school, making trips for students there much longer.
The work session will allow Board members to further discuss the plan, and according to our partners at BBB-TV, an alternative plan could be in the works that would exclude Oliver Springs and Midway from the consolidation altogether and instead focus on combining Rockwood, Harriman, and Roane County (commonly known as Kingston) high schools into one large school.
Tonight’s meeting could be followed by a special-called session of the board, during which a new plan could be voted on if needed.
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