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Smokers for Food Trucks? April 25, 2016 www.knoxfocus.com PAGE A1 WANTED Quality Consignments. Quality Antiques. Fountain City Auction for all of your auction needs (865)604-3468 FREE Take One! April 25, 2016 Halls celebrates changes to outdoor classroom U.S. News and By Ken Lay World Report The Halls High School jazz band played some standards while the Releases High school and Halls Community had a celebration in the school’s out- School Rankings door classroom. By Sally Absher There were games for the kids, [email protected] ice cream and barbecue as Halls High had its annual celebration The U.S. News and World Report in the outdoor classroom Tues- released the 2016 U.S. News Best day night. High Schools ranking and four top The evening concluded with a performing Knox County High pie-eating contest that includ- Schools made the list. ed County Commissioners Bob L&N STEM Academy—with a Col- Thomas and Ed Brantley. Knox lege Readiness Index (CRI) value of County Mayor Tim Burchett also 61.9—ranked number 6 state-wide made an appearance at the and number 341 nationally, earn- event. ing a gold medal. (An explanation The Halls High outdoor class- of the methodology used, includ- room is one of nine in Knox County PHOTOS BY DAN ANDREWS. ing CRI and medal designation, is and was conceived in 2003. It was provided below) Participants compete in a joint effort of Hallsdale-Powell Earning silver medals were: Far- a pie-eating contest at Utility District, the school system, ragut High School, ranked number a party celebrating the Tennessee Water Research Com- 13 state-wide and number 1483 Halls High School outdoor mission and Knox County Storm nationally; Hardin Valley Acad- classroom Tuesday Water and a steering committee emy, ranked number 18 state- night. Work began on comprised of Halls High School wide and number 1744 nationally; Wednesday to make the teachers and students. and Bearden High School, ranked area more accessible to The classroom now has two number 23 state-wide and number disabled students. Knox amphitheatres. The second was 2066 nationally. County Commissioner constructed by Cameron Greer. A total of 27 Tennessee schools Bob Thomas greets a Greer is a student at Halls and received medals: six were awarded constituent at a party developed the second amphithe- gold medals and 21 earned silver celebrating the Halls atre as his Eagle Scout project. medals. High outdoor classroom Burchett commended the Halls Delving into the article (avail- Tuesday night. able at http://www.usnews.com/ Continue on page 4 education/best-high-schools), sev- eral interesting facts emerge. As noted above, Bearden High School was ranked the #23 high school in the state. But last fall Bearden Smokers for Food Trucks? learned that their TVAAS ranking By Mike Steely +dropped from a perfect “5” to the [email protected] requirements would be on first reading and, between Blackstock Avenue and Southern lowest possible score, a “1.” if passed, would reappear on the next coun- Railway if the council approves an agree- This caused undue stress to The final Mobile Food Truck ordinance is on cil agenda. ment with the state. The extra parking would teachers and students alike, and Tuesday’s agenda of the Knoxville City Coun- The council will also look at authorizing benefit the Sansom Sports Complex. resulted in the September 2015 cil and it may or may not include allowing the payment of in lieu of taxes for Collegiate Knoxville’s One Year Plan, prepared by the resignation of several highly regard- “smokers” on the traveling units. The bar- Development Group, LLC for property locat- planning commission, may be discussed on ed and respected BHS teachers. beque smokers tended to be the sticking ed at 1830 Cumberland Avenue and approv- first reading. When will we stop using the flawed point in adopting planning commission rec- ing an “air rights easement” to connect build- Councilman George Wallace is asking the TVAAS evaluation model? ommendations, along with the distance the ings at 1830 Cumberland Avenue. council to approve Deossie Dingus as a KAT Also interestingly, at #23, trucks can operate from residential housing. The mayor may be authorized to add Advisory Board member and Mayor Mad- Bearden comes in right behind Opposition has come from members of Com- $36,000 to a contract with Foundation Sys- eline Rogero is asking the council to con- Maryville High School (#22) and munity Forum. tems Engineering for the Will Skelton Green- firm Lisa Hood Skinner’s appointment to the ahead of Alcoa (recognized nation- In a related agenda item the electrical way Project and adding $79,046 to the Hill Animal Control Board. ally but unranked) and Oak Ridge, codes pertaining to mobile food units may Avenue Viaduct Repair Project for McKinnon The City Council meets Tuesday at 7 p.m. which didn’t even make the Rec- be discussed in a request for Plan Review Construction Company. in the Main Assembly Room of the City-Coun- ognized Nationally list this year. and Building Inspections. The new code Additional parking might be added ty Building. Maryville, Alcoa, and Oak Ridge are often held up as districts where the taxpayers care enough to ade- quately fund the school s. Appar- ently money only buys so much. No State Funding for Safety Center How were the rankings deter- mined? U.S. News & World Report By Mike Steely [email protected] County Detention Center. Commissioner Jeff Ownby. said the state’s reply is “discour- teamed with North Carolina-based For months community activ- “That’s disturbing news,” said aging” and added, “We’re not RTI International, a global nonprofit “I spoke to the (county) may- ists, county commissioners and Commissioner Mike Brown. going to quit, there’s enough social science research firm (that or’s office and there will be no the sheriff’s office have been Later in the meeting Brown said positive energy around this.” sounds scary) to produce the 2016 statewide participation, “said working on the framework of the county needs to “step up Chairman Brown said the com- Best High Schools rankings. Randy Nichols. The statement a treatment facility that would and carry our own weight.” mittee would revisit the effort in The U.S. News comprehensive caught most members of Safety divert people who were arrest- “We’re right back to where May when a request for propos- rankings methodology is based Center Committee by surprise ed for minor offenses and found we were. The next meeting we al is authorized locally. He said on 2 key principles—that a great and sent a chill through the to be mentally ill or addicted. need a bottom line number,” the county should be looking high school must serve all of its members. Hopes were high when County said committee member Vivian to see what facilities might be students, not just those who are Nichols, special advisor to the Mayor Tim Burchett set aside Shipe, who was speaking of available and how much money college bound, well; and that it Sheriff, accompanied the sheriff $1 million for the effort. The city, acquiring an estimate of cost, might be spent on the project. must be able to produce measur- and others to Nashville recently however, has been hesitating whether to build or find a facil- Financial Director Chris able academic outcomes to show to talk with Governor Haslam’s to allocate funding, waiting to ity to house the unit. Caldwell told the full commis- it is successfully educating its stu- administration and came back hear how much the state might “This is not the end, we’re sion later in the afternoon that dent body across a range of perfor- hopeful that the state would contribute. There has also been going to be on-going and we’ll the county learned of the deci- mance indicators. kick in some funding and help talk of involving the surrounding figure out a way,” Nichols said. sion the previous week and U.S. News reports a four-step create a local or regional center counties in the funding. Andy Black, who was appoint- the broken promise from the process was used to determine for the treatment of mental- “The state promised when ed to get comments from other governor’s office would have the 2016 Best High Schools. ly ill and substance abusers they closed Lakeshore they committee members about what Step 1 determined whether each Continue on page 2 and ease housing at the Knox would give money,” said they want in a proposed center, Continue on page 3 Spotlit on Disleksia PAGE A2 The Knoxville Focus April 25, 2016 THE CHALK BOARD Bits of News About Local Education By Sally Absher role in the selection and selected have been graded [email protected] placement of Leadership with high standards by McIntyre to Academy fellows.” the Knox County School Head Center Last Sunday on “Inside System, the contractors, for Educational Tennessee,” loyal McIntyre the Sheriff’s department, supporter Don Bosch sug- and school staff. Thanks Leadership gested that Buzz Thomas also to Ted Russell Ford and KCS Superintendent Dr. should become the per- WIVK 107.7 for making it all Jim McIntyre, who will be manent superintendent. possible. stepping down from his A comment on KnoxViews While we support this $227,256 position in July, referred to Thomas as initiative and extend our has been hired to head “Darth McIntyre’s young congratulations to the five the Center for Educational apprentice,” adding, “This drivers who received the Leadership at the Univer- is perfect. A failed Super- awards this month, we hope sity of Tennessee.
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