Shannon Coan

As the state and nation faces a shortage of nurses, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is preparing to elevate its School of Nursing to become the university's fifth standalone college.

Families will now have multiple choices for their child to receive counseling at school after the Hamilton County Board of Education approved agreements with five mental health providers Thursday to offer school-based services to students.

Five mental health providers, including Centerstone and a Christian counseling service, have been recommended by Hamilton County Schools' evaluation committee to offer school-based services to students.

Six weeks into a new district-wide policy that prohibits students from using their phones during the school day, Hamilton County educators said the change has had a positive impact, bolstering student engagement and prompting little pushback.

Millions of dollars are heading to students attending Hamilton County private schools through Tennessee's tuition grant programs, according to an analysis of state data.

After a tight budget cycle in the spring, the Hamilton County school board is beginning its budget talks earlier this year, with increasing staff compensation named as a top priority.

For Sean Corcoran, who leads Brainerd Baptist School, the rollout of Tennessee's newest program providing state funding for students to attend private schools had a completely different feel to it.

Hamilton County public school students academically outperformed those using state grants for private school tuition for the second year in a row, according to newly released state data.

For the third meeting in a row, Hamilton County school board members opted not to renew a long-standing contract with a community mental health center to provide school-based services for students.

As the Hamilton County school board prepares to consider new agreements with mental health providers next month, the previous long-standing provider is working to clarify its services and the reasoning behind school-based care.

On a sunny fall afternoon at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, two second-year students are instantly excited when they realize it's the school's new chancellor, Lori Mann Bruce, who just walked up to their table.

After the Hamilton County school board opted twice recently not to renew a long-standing contract with a mental health center, the district announced Wednesday it would put out an open bid looking for organizations that provide mental health services to students.

All Hamilton County school board meetings could be held over two days each month under a proposed change meant to streamline the process.

Joey Whitmire first began to fall in love with technology when he took a computer foundations class at Soddy Daisy High School.

In the year before Hamilton County Schools revamped its career and technical education programs in 2018, 66 students earned at least one industry certification. This past school year, it was 1,914.

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga will close several campus centers to comply with new state laws that bar public institutions from promoting diversity, equity and inclusion.

Students at two more Hamilton County elementary schools will have access to daily one-on-one literacy tutoring this year after new partnerships allowed the program to expand again.

The Tennessee Department of Education announced Friday that all 20,000 of the available taxpayer-funded grants for private school tuition costs had been awarded, though it did not respond to questions about how many were being used in the Chattanooga region.

A month after the Hamilton County school board declined to renew a longstanding contract with a community mental health center to provide school-based services for students, members declined to discuss an updated agreement Thursday.

For the past four years, Kerry Alonge's son, Shawn, has met once a week with a counselor from private mental health care provider Centerstone to talk about his problems and things that would agitate him at school.