Reading Retention Revisited
With both 3rd- and 4th-graders facing the possibility of being held back this year, Knox County Schools prepares to present parents with their options.
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May 9, 2024A weekly mystery photo to test your knowledge of the local landscape.
May 8, 2024How Alzheimer’s Tennessee helps people diagnosed with dementia live with the disease.
May 7, 2024While school employees will see salary jumps, other county employees will get a 2 percent raise halfway through the year.
May 6, 2024The Campus Advisory Board endorses undergraduate tuition increases and an overhaul of how parking is handled at UT-Knoxville.
May 6, 2024Every Monday, we run down the week's public meetings and civic events.
May 3, 2024With less than a year to opening day of the 2025 baseball season, work is about 60 percent complete on the stadium east of the Old City.
May 2, 2024Knox County voters will have a host of competitive local races to decide, plus a handful of state and federal primaries.- May 2, 2024A weekly mystery photo to test your knowledge of the local landscape.
May 1, 2024City Council approved the mayor’s proposed budget on first reading, while three pro-Palestinian protesters were expelled for disrupting the meeting.
April 30, 2024Knox County Schools’ $683.7 million spending plan for 2024-25 forced district leaders to rethink every line item.
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All free to read and share.- Big Ears founder Ashley Capps talks about this year’s festival, which brings music and art to Knoxville and showcases the city to the world.
- A $42.6 million federal grant will help pay for infrastructure improvements to help repair the damage of urban renewal.
- Joseph ‘Black Atticus’ Woods, Knoxville’s poet laureate, writes and raps from the heart.
- But a Republican-sponsored bill could block the U.S. Senate candidate from running for two offices simultaneously.
- As uncertainty about Gov. Bill Lee’s 'Freedom Scholarship' plan ripples across the state, one Knox County school board member prepares.