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Editor’s Note: Byrne bows out. What’s next?

Connect Savannah StaffFebruary 7, 2018February 8, 2025

Jolene Byrne’s announcement not to seek a second term as School Board President wasn’t a complete surprise given the many controversies during her tenure. But it does say a lot of things about the state of our community and our education system —
few of them positive.

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Editor’s Note: It’s not Jolene Byrne who needs to go

Connect Savannah StaffOctober 11, 2017May 18, 2025

On this issue, always keep this in mind: The rest of your elected School Board is essentially working to keep local students from being able to attend college. Their vendetta against the Board President has reached such a fever pitch that they hold every child in the district hostage to it.

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Editor’s Note: Lockamy’s revenge — but for what?

Connect Savannah StaffMay 30, 2017June 28, 2025

Even as he retires, Lockamy is pursuing an official complaint with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) against Savannah-Chatham School Board President Jolene Byrne. In effect, Lockamy is holding the nearly 40,000 children in the school district hostage to his vendetta with Byrne.

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Throwing safety under the bus

Connect Savannah StaffAugust 5, 2015June 7, 2025

In all, 75 percent of the fleet as inherited by MV wasn’t roadworthy by state or federal standards, with over 7,000 safety or maintenance defects being discovered so far. Though the damning audit was done in Nov. 2014, Board President Byrne didn’t receive a copy of it until the week before school opened.

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Editor’s Note: Unsafe at any speed

Connect Savannah StaffAugust 5, 2015August 8, 2025

After the buses get rolling this week and the safety issue fades in the public consciousness, another backstory will remain: The issue of why this School Board President and School Board are consistently not being given vital information by the administrative staff at 208 Bull Street.

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Editor’s Note: Taking out the trash in the school budget

Connect Savannah StaffJuly 8, 2015June 10, 2025

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: Public schools and the Stockholm Syndrome

Connect Savannah StaffMarch 25, 2015June 13, 2025

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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Zero tolerance?

Linda Sickler #2March 4, 2008June 17, 2025

ON JAN. 17, campus police arrested a 16-year-old Savannah High School student who attacked a classmate. It was one of many fights at the school that day, but this one […]

Thomas Lockamy

Editor’s Note: Byrne bows out. What’s next?

Editor’s Note: It’s not Jolene Byrne who needs to go

Editor’s Note: Lockamy’s revenge — but for what?

Throwing safety under the bus

Editor’s Note: Unsafe at any speed

Editor’s Note: Taking out the trash in the school budget

Editor’s Note: Public schools and the Stockholm Syndrome

Zero tolerance?

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