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For members: With no increase, AC schools budget could have $1.4 million in cuts

Posted at 1:07 pm May 17, 2019
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Without a tax rate increase or other new revenues, the Anderson County Schools budget could include more than $1.4 million in cuts, compared to last year, school officials said during an Anderson County Board of Education meeting on Thursday, May 16, 2019. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)

CLINTON—Without a tax rate increase or other new revenues, the Anderson County Schools budget could include more than $1.4 million in cuts, compared to last year, school officials said Thursday.

The cuts could include reductions in elementary school, middle school, and high school positions, and Central Office, technology, custodial, and maintenance staff; cuts to materials and supplies, and band equipment at the high schools; not finishing the gymnasium at Grand Oaks Elementary School; cutting a full-time nurse, high school coaching supplements, and a school resource officer vehicle; and reductions to transportation safety, special education assistants, and City of Rocky Top field maintenance, among a long list of potential cuts.

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Filed Under: Anderson County, Education, Education, Front Page News, Government, K-12, Premium Content, Slider Tagged With: Anderson County, Anderson County Board of Education, Anderson County Commission, Anderson County Schools, Anderson County Sheriff’s Office, balanced budget, BOE, cuts, Jerry White, John S. Burrell, pay raise, property tax rate, schools budget, Scott Gillenwaters, tax rate increase, Tim Parrott

Yager wins special election for Anderson County Commission, District 8

Posted at 9:38 pm August 4, 2016
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

Phil Yager

Phil Yager

  Note: This story was last updated at 12:05 a.m. Phil Yager beat two other candidates to win a seat on Anderson County Commission in District 8 in Oak Ridge on Thursday. The special election for the District 8 seat was held along with the county general election and state and federal primaries on Thursday, August 4. District 8 includes the Emory Valley, Hendrix Creek, and Woodland voting precincts in Oak Ridge. Yager finished with 542 votes, compared to 239 for Angeleque McNutt and 227 for Myra Mansfield, according to unofficial results posted on the Anderson County Election Commission website. The final results from all 27 precincts, plus early, absentee, and write-in ballots, were posted at 10:41 p.m. Thursday. [Read more…]

Filed Under: 2016 Election, Anderson County, Front Page News, Government Tagged With: Anderson County Commission, Anderson County Election Commission, Anderson County School Board, Andy McKamey, Angeleque McNutt, county general election, Dail Cantrell, District 8, early voting, election day, Emory Valley, Glenda J. Langenberg, Hendrix Creek, Herman Collins, John K. Alley Jr., John S. Burrell, Michael McKamey, Myra Mansfield, Phil Yager, Rickey Rose, Robin Biloski, Scott Daugherty, Shain Vowell, special election, Tennessee House of Representatives, voting, Woodland, Zach Bates

Aug. 4 ballot: Competitive races for Congress, AC Commission in Oak Ridge

Posted at 1:09 pm June 23, 2016
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

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The ballot is set for the August 4 county general election and state and federal primary elections. The competitive elections include the Republican and Democratic primaries for the U.S. House of Representatives in the Third Congressional District, which includes Oak Ridge, and the race for one of two seats in Anderson County Commission’s Eighth District, which includes the Woodland, Hendrix Creek, and Emory Valley precincts in Oak Ridge.

There is also competition for two seats on the Anderson County School Board, one in the Third District and the other in the Fifth District.

U.S. Representative Chuck Fleischmann, an Ooltewah Republican, is the incumbent in the House’s Third Congressional District. He has two opponents in the Republican primary on August 4: Allan Levene and Geoffery Suhmer Smith. (Signs for Fleischmann and Smith have both recently been posted in Oak Ridge.)

There are also three Democratic candidates on the ballot for U.S. House, Third District. They are Michael Friedman, George Ryan Love, and Melody Shekari.

The Republican winner will face the Democratic winner in the November 8 federal general election. [Read more…]

Filed Under: 2016 Election, Anderson County, Federal, Front Page News, Government, State Tagged With: Allan Levene, Anderson County Commission, Anderson County Democratic Party, Anderson County School Board, Anderson County Sheriff's Department, Andy McKamey, Angeleque McNutt, August 4 ballot, August 4 election, Bob Fannon, Catherine Denenberg, Chris Phillips, Chuck Fleischmann, county general election, Dail R. Cantrell, Democratic primaries, Dennis H. Powers, Eighth District, Emory Valley, federal primary election, Geoffery Suhmer Smith, George Ryan Love, Glenda J. Langenberg, Hendrix Creek, Herman Collins, J. Shain Vowell, John K. Alley Jr., John Ragan, John S. Burrell, Melody Shekari, Michael Friedman, Michael S. McKamey, Myra Mansfield, November 8 election, November 8 state general election, Oak Ridge, Phil Yager, Republican, Robin Biloski, Scott Daugherty, Third Congressional District, U.S. House of Representatives, Woodland, Zach Bates, Zenith Rickey Rose

Anderson County school officials revoke rejection of Oak Ridge Head Start application

Posted at 7:47 pm April 29, 2014
By John Huotari 5 Comments

Anderson County Board of Education

Members of the Anderson County Board of Education pictured above are, from left, Steve Fritts and Scott Gillenwaters, Schools Director Larry Foster, Board Chair John Burrell, Vice Chair Greg Crawford, and member Dail Cantrell.

 

CLINTON—Anderson County school officials have revoked a decision that could have resulted in the loss of about $700,000 in funding for the Head Start program in Oak Ridge in the next school year.

The Anderson County Board of Education rejected Oak Ridge’s Head Start application on April 10 over concerns about the falsification of federal data, specifically reports on the motor skills of children.

But since then, officials from Anderson County and Oak Ridge schools have met and hammered out a 10-point plan that could be put into place for the 2014-2015 school year. The agreement would allow Oak Ridge to continue to receive funding for the city’s Head Start program through Anderson County.

The agreement between the two systems, which would have the city and county work together to hire a new preschool principal or director in Oak Ridge, was considered during a brief special meeting of the Anderson County Board of Education in Clinton on Tuesday. The board unanimously agreed to rescind their April 10 rejection and accept Oak Ridge’s proposal. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Education, K-12, Top Stories Tagged With: Anderson County, Anderson County Board of Education, federal data, Head Start, John S. Burrell, motor skills, Oak Ridge

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