January 9, 2025 – Parker’s Kitchen presented a $100,000 Fueling the Community donation to Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools to support teachers and students throughout Chatham County on Thursday, January 9th. […]
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Back to School 2.0
The first tentative return date is Oct. 5 for the least independent learners
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Editor’s Note: Time for a full school audit
The borrowing of the $21 million just to make payroll is through an instrument called a Tax Anticipation Note (TAN). A TAN is not unusual in the world of bureaucratic funding. But while a TAN is often routine, this particular TAN was anything but.
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School Board President Candidate: Tye Whitely
CANDIDATE Tye Whitely has three very personal reasons to run for school board president. Her three kids are currently attending Chatham County public schools. “As a user of the school […]
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School Board President Candidate: Larry Lower
CANDIDATE Larry Lower used the word “inclusive” at least five or six times in my 30 minute conversation with him. And when Lower, a current school board member who was […]
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School Board President Candidate: Betty Morgan
CANDIDATE Betty Morgan certainly knows her campaign’s main talking point. “I’m the only one out of the five of us who taught school,” she says. Morgan taught in Chatham County […]
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Editor’s Note: Taking out the trash in the school budget
The bid rejected by the board would save nearly $4 million over a ten-year period. How many new teachers do you think could be hired with that money?
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Editor’s Note: The Great Homework Controversy
A recent editorial in the daily paper attacking Jolene Byrne completely missed her point, and deserves a solid rebuttal on the merits.
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Editor’s Note: Public schools and the Stockholm Syndrome
Being a public school parent is like being unhappily married: You’re so deeply invested you’re often the last to see that it isn’t working out. Then there’s a crushing realization that the marriage is irretrievably broken and you can never get those years back.
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Editor’s Note: Byrne-ing down the old ways
This race proved so many assumptions wrong—and in so doing, also proved there’s a glimmer of hope for our badly abused democratic process.
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Assault on education
They used fire extinguishers and possibly a hammer to destroy thousands of dollars worth of computers, desks, chairs, books and bookshelves.