Group seeks solution from local schools

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chip ramsey news@tsinews.com An anti-bullying rally moved on with a planned march and candlelight vigil Monday after they were not able to speak at a Coffee County School Board meeting. Chairperson Esther Sims told dozens of Coffee County school students and parents that they could not speak because they were not on the agenda for [...]

Bullying epidemic?

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chip ramsey news@tsinews.com Coffee County School officials are wrestling with what many parents, students, teachers and former teachers are calling an epidemic of bullying.

COMPREHENSIVE:Coffee County High is crossing the lines of academics and vocation

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Business and civic leaders took a tour of Coffee County Central High School Thursday. Simple enough situation. Happens often. Usually someone is presenting a check.

World in a week

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For what it is worth? This is a new addition to The Saturday Independent with brief blurbs and headlines from around the world with a local flavor.

Board gives Lawson a two-year contract

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newsleader 6, tsi staff news@tsinews.com The Tullahoma School Board voted to offer Superintendent Dr. Dan Lawson an extension of his current contract.

School is giving students options for their own success

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tsi staff reports news@tsinews.com Motlow State Community College has become a game-changer for many live in the midstate, and if legislators didn’t know the potent offerings that the two-year college offers, they certainly did when they walked away from a breakfast at the school Friday morning.

Manchester School Board cashes in on Brewer

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In what one  senior school board member called a “very easy process”, the Manchester School Board gave Keith Brewer the obvious nod as its next schools superintendent. It also gave him nearly 30 more money than outgoing schools director Prater Powell. Brewer also was the only candidate the board sought for a job that will [...]

Interview with schools personnel about Walmart donation

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Coffee County Schools family resources director Jerry Tackett talks to the Saturday  Independent about the $3,000 that Walmart donated for needy children to help with school supplies.

Brewer favors new high school for Manchester

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chip ramsey news@tsinews.com Dr. Keith Brewer’s interview with the Manchester City School Board was less of a fact-finding mission than a statement of his vision for a system that appears to be his to lead. Brewer, a former Manchester Schools Director who left Manchester in 2003 to take the number two job in the Tennessee [...]

Walmart donates money for needy school kids

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Coffee County Schools director LaDonna McFall accepts a check Monday from Walmart manager Bill Rapko that will go towards supplying school needs for local children. Family Resources officials Jerry Tackett and Leann Evans are pictured as well.