by design | Jul 12, 2015 | Knox County, Knoxville, The Daily Focus
By Mike Steely The Knox County Commission meets in a work session next Monday, July 20, at 5 p.m. in the City-County Building and will consider several requests from the school system including leasing 14 vehicles for Drivers Education. The 36-month lease, with Acme...
by design | Jul 12, 2015 | Knox County, Knoxville, The Daily Focus
By Sally Absher In what some are calling yet another assault on Tennessee educators, the Tennessee Department of Education (TN DOE) has adopted a new method of detecting cheating on Tennessee’s most important standardized assessment, the TCAP. The State calls this its...
by design | Jul 6, 2015 | Absher, Columnist
By Sally Absher Standardized Tests – the Good News. Statewide TCAP (grades 3-8) and high school End of Course (EOC) results were released last week. District and School-level results will be released later this month. The Department of Education touts the statewide...
by design | Jul 6, 2015 | Columnist, Moore
By Rosie Moore William Penn, who founded Pennsylvania (which, by the way, means Penn’s Woods) was born in London, England in 1644. In his twenties he converted to the Quaker religion and was jailed several times for his resistance to the church of England. In 1681 he...
by Ralphine Major | Jul 6, 2015 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major ralphine3@yahoo.com When winter’s wrath paralyzed our nation last February with weeks of snow and ice, ninety-degree days and summer holidays seemed so distant. By the time this column is printed, we will have celebrated our nation’s independence. ...
by Joe Rector | Jul 6, 2015 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector I like the outside. Nothing depresses me more than being trapped in the house as the rain or snow falls. Working in the yard is a blessing to me, and I’d stay there all the time were I given the opportunity. The only drawbacks to being in the yard or the...
by Mark Nagi | Jul 6, 2015 | Columnist, Nagi, Norman
By Alex Norman Well, that’s it… the Lady Vols as we know them are gone… The University of Tennessee, the University of Tennessee Athletic Department, the UT Board of Trustees… they found a way to greatly diminish something that has put the University of Tennessee in a...
by Steve Williams | Jul 6, 2015 | Columnist, Williams
By Steve Williams Ahjanai Stephens picked participation over specialization in her high school athletic career at Austin-East. The Lady Roadrunners’ Student-Athlete of the Year participated in three sports plus band her senior year. I think that’s great. It may not be...
by design | Jul 6, 2015 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson I can claim only partial credit that this week’s essay is timely. Actually, the Focus editor called my attention to the abbreviated schedule for the 4th of July holiday. Otherwise, I would, as usual, be out of synch with calendar events....
by design | Jul 6, 2015 | Public Notice
foreclosure notices NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE WHEREAS, default has occurred in the performance of the covenants, terms and conditions of a Deed of Trust dated December 18, 2008, executed by DORIS L. BOLEY AND WILLIAM M. BOLEY, conveying certain...
