by design | Nov 24, 2014 | Absher, Columnist
By Sally Absher sallyabsher@knoxfocus.com At last week’s mid-month Board of Education work session, Dr. McIntyre updated the board on the situation regarding KCS food services and accounts payable departments that led to the dismissal of one employee and...
by design | Nov 17, 2014 | Absher, Columnist
By Sally Absher By Sally Absher Last week, Audit Committee member Commissioner Mike Brown, who has been one of the most vocal critics of the wasteful spending and misuse of our tax dollars by the McIntyre administration, ignored the unanimous request of the school...
by design | Nov 17, 2014 | Absher, Columnist
By Sally Absher Remember your Mother’s words of wisdom: you can tell a lot about a person by their associations. At the November 3 BOE work session, Dr. McIntyre mentioned one of his associations. McIntyre said, “The former U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige was...
by design | Nov 10, 2014 | Absher, Columnist
By Sally Absher In a special call meeting during the BOE work session last week, The Board of Education voted to discontinue the highly controversial K-2 standardized assessment, also known as the SAT-10, for the district’s kindergarten, first, and second graders. A...
by design | Nov 10, 2014 | Absher, Columnist
By Sally Absher sallyabsher@knoxfocus.com Last Wednesday during the regular KCS BOE meeting, Amber Rountree initiated a request for an external forensic audit of the Knox County Schools credit cards. Rountree made the request after seeing media reports detailing the...
by design | Nov 3, 2014 | Absher, Columnist
By Sally Absher In September when County Commission was interviewing candidates to temporarily fill Indya Kincannon’s Second District BOE seat, John Fugate said he thought one of the biggest concerns in the district was the “immigrant problem.” Although some reporters...
