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Letter: Fillauer has lifelong experience in education, supports him for School Board

Posted at 11:39 am October 20, 2016
By Oak Ridge Today Letters Leave a Comment

To the Editor:

This letter is in support of my friend, Keys Fillauer, the current chairman of the Oak Ridge School Board and candidate for re-election. We got lucky when this man decided to serve Oak Ridge Schools.

Keys has given his talent and experience as well as tireless hours working for our schools. I asked him why he does it. What it seemed to come down to is his love for education, people, and this community. Keys is dedicated to keeping our award-winning school system at the forefront of innovation while at the same time keeping our schools a place where each student is empowered to reach their full potential no matter what level they are on.

Keys has lifelong experience in education. As a teacher, a father, and a student first himself, Keys knows the importance of meeting each student where they are in the educational process. This challenge is what keeps Keys going. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Letters, Opinion Tagged With: Anita Vines, Keys Fillauer, Oak Ridge Board of Education, Oak Ridge School Board, Oak Ridge Schools

BBB-TV posts video from Oak Ridge Board of Education candidate forum

Posted at 8:17 pm October 19, 2016
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

BBB-TV, Channel 12 in Oak Ridge, has posted video from a candidate forum for Oak Ridge Board of Education.

The candidate forum was Thursday, September 29, at the Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce.

There are three candidates for two school board seats in the November 8 election. The candidates are the two incumbents, Keys Fillauer and Angi Agle, and challenger Myra Mansfield.

See the forum in the video below. [Read more…]

Filed Under: 2016 Election, Education, Front Page News, K-12 Tagged With: Angi Agle, BBB-TV, candidate forum, Keys Fillauer, Myra Mansfield, Oak Ridge Board of Education, Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce, school board

Progress PAC endorses Dodson, Lee, Vogel for City Council

Posted at 10:53 am October 19, 2016
By Oak Ridge Today Staff 16 Comments

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Pictured above from left to right are Jim Dodson, Joe Lee, and Hans Vogel.

 

The Progress PAC political action committee has endorsed Jim Dodson, Joe Lee, and Hans Vogel for Oak Ridge City Council in the November 8 election.

The endorsements were announced Wednesday.

“From a crowded field of seven outstanding city council candidates, these three most clearly met the committee’s criteria, which includes support of the mission, vision, and legislative priorities of the Oak Ridge Chamber and a willingness to work closely with the Oak Ridge Board of Education,” Progress PAC Chairman Stephen Whitson said in a press release. [Read more…]

Filed Under: 2016 Election, Front Page News, Government, Oak Ridge, Top Stories Tagged With: Angi Agle, Chris Johnson, Hans Vogel, Jim Dodson, Joe Lee, John Smith, Keys Fillauer, Mike Belbeck, November 8 election, Oak Ridge Board of Education, Oak Ridge City Council, PAC, political action committee, Progress PAC, Stacy Myers, Stephen Whitson

United Way campaign off to strong start

Posted at 7:08 am October 18, 2016
By naomi asher Leave a Comment

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United Way of Anderson County has held several events already this campaign season, including their inaugural Leading Ladies United luncheon, which provided an opportunity for networking and for attendees to hear about several girls’ and women’s initiatives that United Way has under way.

Taste of Anderson County was a success in September, with live music, food vendors, a full bar, and plenty of kids activities. The community came out to support in full force and had a great Thursday night eating and drinking together, a press release said.

Bob Kesling came to celebrate the Vols with United Way supporters at a September 16 breakfast that focused on getting the community involved through giving back with time and money.

“Of course, Campaign Co-Chair Bear Stephenson auctioned a few Vols items to raise some extra dollars,” the press release said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Community, Front Page News, Nonprofits, Top Stories Tagged With: Bear Stephenson, Bob Kesling, Bruce Borchers, Cande Seay, Jim Dodson, Keys Fillauer, Naomi Asher, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge Schools, ORAU, Starfish Award Luncheon, United Way, United Way of Anderson County

Progress PAC endorses Agle, Fillauer

Posted at 10:44 am October 13, 2016
By Oak Ridge Today Staff 1 Comment

Keys Fillauer

Keys Fillauer

The Progress PAC political action committee has endorsed the two incumbents running for Oak Ridge Board of Education: Angi Agle and Keys Fillauer.

“PAC board members feel these candidates best support the business community’s commitment toward exceptional schools and have expressed a willingness to partner with the Oak Ridge City Council on educational issues,” a press release said.

The Progress PAC endorsements for Oak Ridge City Council candidates will be announced later, said PAC Chairman Steve Whitson, an Oak Ridge resident.

“There are 10 candidates running for seven combined City Council and School Board seats, so decisions to endorse candidates are not made without lots of thought and discussion,” Whitson said in the press release. [Read more…]

Filed Under: 2016 Election, Education, Front Page News, K-12, Top Stories Tagged With: Angi Agle, Chris Johnson, John Smith, Keys Fillauer, Mike Belbeck, Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge Board of Education, Oak Ridge City Council, Progress PAC, Progress PAC endorsements, school board, Stacy Myers, Steve Whitson

Tuesday forum to feature candidates for City Council, Board of Education

Posted at 1:04 pm September 29, 2016
By Oak Ridge Today Staff Leave a Comment

A forum in Oak Ridge on Tuesday will feature candidates for Oak Ridge City Council, Oak Ridge Board of Education, and city judge.

The forum will start at 7 p.m. Tuesday, October 4, in the Oak Ridge High School Amphitheater at 1450 Oak Ridge Turnpike. It’s been organized by the League of Women Voters of Oak Ridge.

Candidates for Oak Ridge City Council [Read more…]

Filed Under: 2016 Election, Education, Front Page News, Government, K-12, Oak Ridge, Top Stories Tagged With: Angi Agle, Anne Garcia Garland, Charles J. "Chuck" Hope Jr., forum, Hans Vogel, Jim Dodson, Joseph Lee, Keys Fillauer, League of Women Voters of Oak Ridge, Mark LeNoir, Myra Mansfield, Oak Ridge Board of Education, Oak Ridge City Council, Oak Ridge High School, Patrick Bryan, Robert A. McNees III, Wende Doolittle

Reminder: School board candidate forum is Thursday morning

Posted at 10:07 pm September 28, 2016
By Oak Ridge Today Staff 2 Comments

Reminder: The Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce has a forum for candidates for Oak Ridge Board of Education on Thursday morning.

It’s the second of three candidate forums for the November 8 election.

The Board of Education candidate forum will start at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, September 29, in the Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce’s Joyce Conference Room. It’s free and open to the public.

There are three candidates for two seats on the school board: the incumbents, Angi Agle and Keys Fillauer, and challenger Myra Mansfield. [Read more…]

Filed Under: 2016 Election, Education, K-12, Top Stories Tagged With: Anderson County Charter Commission, Angi Agle, candidate forum, Consolidated Nuclear Security, Gene Patterson, Greta Ownby, Keys Fillauer, Myra Mansfield, Oak Ridge Board of Education, Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce, Oak Ridge City Council, school board candidate forum

Fillauer, the school board chair, seeks re-election to BOE

Posted at 3:17 pm September 27, 2016
By Oak Ridge Today Staff Leave a Comment

Keys Fillauer

Keys Fillauer

Keys Fillauer is seeking to be re-elected to the Oak Ridge Board of Education.

Fillauer has served on the school board for 15 years and has served as chair for the last four years. He also serves as East director for the Tennessee School Board Association Board of Directors.

Fillauer is a retired Oak Ridge teacher and coach. He taught and coached at Robertsville Junior High for 27 years and at Oak Ridge High School for four years, a press release said. Fillauer has been recognized as a member of the All Tennessee School Board, Tennessee Teacher of the Year, and Freedom Foundation Award winner, and he received the Governor’s Outstanding Tennessean Award.

Fillauer has also received the Service Above Self award from the Oak Ridge Breakfast Rotary Club, the press release said. He is a member of the Oak Ridge Sports Hall of Fame and the Anderson County Hall of Fame.

Fillauer serves as president of a property management business in Cleveland, Tennessee. He is involved in many fundraising efforts, especially for the Ronald McDonald House, the press release said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: 2016 Election, Education, Front Page News, K-12, Top Stories Tagged With: Alan Tatum, Anderson County Grand Jury foreman, Anderson County Hall of Fame, City Council, Keys Fillauer, Melanie Fillauer, Oak Ridge Board of Education, Oak Ridge High School, Oak Ridge Schools, Oak Ridge Sports Hall of Fame, Parks Fillauer, Robertsville Junior High, Ronald McDonald House, school board, Tennessee School Board Association Board of Directors

Mansfield focuses on reading, math, support for all students in school board race

Posted at 12:33 pm September 16, 2016
By Oak Ridge Today Staff Leave a Comment

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Myra Mansfield is pictured above with her granddaughters Kyrstin and Kennedy. (Submitted photo)

Myra Mansfield has focused on reading and math proficiency and support for all students in her campaign for Oak Ridge Board of Education.

“Every child in our schools should achieve proficiency in reading and math,” Mansfield said in a press release announcing her campaign.

Mansfield is one of three candidates to qualify to run for one of two school board seats in the November 8 election. The other two candidates are the two incumbents, Angi Agle and Keys Fillauer.

In the press release, Mansfield said she is running because she believes that all children, regardless of their background, are capable of achieving greatness.

“I was compelled by what I read in the local newspapers,” Mansfield said. “Students are underachieving from all backgrounds across the city and that demands our attention.”

Mansfield said she is the daughter of K-25 retiree Stanley Finch and Oak Ridge National Laboratory retiree Shirley Garrison (Finch) Frykman. She said she is a lifelong Oak Ridger and proud product of Woodland Elementary, Jefferson Middle, and Oak Ridge High schools. She has degrees in accounting, business management, and a master’s degree focused in counseling, the press release said. Her daughters Esther and Elizabeth are graduates of MTSU and son Jonathan is a student at Roane State Community College. [Read more…]

Filed Under: 2016 Election, Education, Front Page News, K-12, Top Stories Tagged With: Anderson County Preschool Policy Council, Angi Agle, child advocacy, Choices Resource Center, Keys Fillauer, math, Myra Mansfield, Nurturing and Safe World, Oak Ridge Board of Education, Oak Ridge Schools, reading, the Anderson County Drug Court Advisory Board

Oak Ridge school board passes budget on second, final reading

Posted at 11:18 am May 24, 2016
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

The Oak Ridge Board of Education passed the budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1 on second and final reading on Monday.

The budget includes 3 percent salary increases and a request for an additional $538,048 from the city, a 3.6 percent increase in municipal funding.

The schools budget was approved unanimously in the first of two readings on Wednesday. It passed unanimously again on Monday. The school board made no significant changes to the budget proposed by the school system.

The budget will now be considered as part of the annual budget deliberations by the Oak Ridge City Council. The city typically provides a little less than 30 percent of the school system’s funding. The schools also receive state and federal funding. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Education, Front Page News, K-12 Tagged With: budget, Hall Income Tax, Keys Fillauer, municipal funding, Oak Ridge Board of Education, Oak Ridge City Council, Oak Ridge High School, Oak Ridge School Board, salary increases

Opinion: Making positive strides in elementary literacy

Posted at 11:39 am April 6, 2016
By Oak Ridge Today Staff 7 Comments

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Keys Fillauer

By Oak Ridge Board of Education

We have been reading a lot lately about the dire straits of reading instruction and students’ abilities in reading, especially at the early grades. Although there are challenges, there is also momentum to make positive impacts on students’ reading proficiencies in all grades.

What is happening with elementary literacy?

Two school years ago, the state changed (for the better) the English Language Arts and math standards to make them more rigorous in order to ensure that Tennessee high school graduates will be better prepared in the future for college and careers. Most public schools welcomed the change because the former standards just weren’t serving Tennessee students well. However, changing standards also meant changing state assessments.

In Oak Ridge, we saw a drop in our elementary reading results on state exams after these changes. The drops in reading results were especially evident with our economically disadvantaged students.

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Bob Eby

For us, this was and is unacceptable. We believe that all students can succeed, and we have expanded our literacy initiative as a result. This literacy initiative includes providing additional time and support starting in kindergarten all the way through high school to students who struggle in reading. We have trained reading specialists who provide intensive instruction to struggling students. We have a summer bookmobile program that is expanding to multiple elementary schools in order to help reduce summer reading setback. We have professional development for teachers on improving reading and writing instruction in the classroom, and we have purchased research-based materials to support them. In addition, we have recently been provided an opportunity to work with the Carnegie Foundation and the Tennessee Department of Education to systematically analyze our early literacy efforts in order to improve student outcomes. This work will begin in April 2016 and will last through September 2018.

But what about testing? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Education, Front Page News, Guest Columns, K-12, Opinion Tagged With: Allison Peters, Altrusa, Angi Agle, Bob Eby, bookmobile, Carnegie Foundation, Derrick Hammond, elementary literacy, English Language Arts, Jake Morrill, Keys Fillauer, Laura McLean, literacy, math standards, Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge Board of Education, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge Schools, Oak Ridge Schools Education Foundation, ORAU, Paige Marshall, phonics, reading instruction, Rotary, Seven Keys to College and Career Readiness, Tennessee Department of Education, testing, TNReady, UCOR, Willow Brook Elementary School

Presidential primaries on March 1; property assessor unopposed

Posted at 10:22 pm January 13, 2016
By John Huotari 1 Comment

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John K. Alley Jr.

The presidential primary and county primaries are March 1 in Tennessee. While there are expected to be several choices for president in both of the party’s primaries—they’re part of the so-called “SEC primaries”—there are no contests in the Anderson County primary, where Republican John K. Alley Jr. is running unopposed for a second four-year term.

Other Anderson County offices such as mayor, sheriff, and commissioner are on a different cycle, so they won’t be subject to an election until 2018.

The Anderson County Elections Commission said this month that the March 1 ballots haven’t been finalized yet.

The state primary and county general election is August 4. [Read more…]

Filed Under: 2016 Election, Anderson County, Federal, Front Page News, Government, State, Top Stories Tagged With: Anderson County Elections Commission, Angi Agle, Charlie Hensley, Chuck Fleischmann, Chuck Hope, county general election, federal general election, John K. Alley Jr., John Ragan, Ken Yager, Kent Calfee, Keys Fillauer, March 1 ballots, Oak Ridge City Council, Oka Ridge Board of Education, presidential primaries, SEC primaries, Trina Baughn

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