School Board Meeting - January 17th

Last night’s school Board meeting (Jan 17th) was relatively short. There were two presentations made. Rob Dill, principal of Roane County High School and Celia Simon, a teacher at the school gave a presentation on the status of their 9th grade academy and Stephanie Walker led a presentation on a new Data Driven method for tracking students in Special Education. The Board was presented an

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