Cleveland City Schools announces is will offer parents and community members an opportunity to serve on Community Engagement Committees for the 2018-2019 school year. District administrators will lead the committees which will meet twice during the year. Committee members will give feedback to the district on issues related to school life.    2018-2019 Committees: ... (click for more)

Cleveland High School senior parents are invited to the Family College Planning Event on Tuesday, 6:00 pm at the Bradley Central High School Fine Arts Building with sessions on Financial Aid and College Planning. Families are invited to participate in a mini college fair before the sessions begin at the same location with representatives from Chatt State, Cleveland State, ... (click for more)

A female inmate was found unresponsive at the Bradley County Jail on Monday afternoon. Correctional officers and on-site medical personnel performed life saving measures, but she was later declared dead after Bradley County EMS arrived.  The inmate was 54-year-old Fawn Zanette Brandham. Correctional officers contacted the 12th Judicial District Attorney's office, ... (click for more)

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of a couple with a Down syndrome child who sued the county schools. The parents of Luka Hyde objected when the county schools tried to move him from his zoned school to a segregated school. The ruling says under federal law that students with disabilities are supposed to be placed in the least restrictive ... (click for more)

I was caught off-guard and pleasantly stoked by Eric Atkins' editorial on Chattanoogan.com last week suggesting that one of the soon-to-be surplused city buildings could be turned into a history museum.   I didn't think anyone other than myself that I didn't know cared, or at least would turn their thoughts into the topic of an editorial.  I believe that most of the ... (click for more)

After the first weekend in August, the United States was shaken to its core as every major media outlet reported that 67 people had been shot in Chicago, 12 of them dead in the senseless carnage. Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel pleaded for calm and announced an additional 600 police officers would join other law enforcement in the five most troubled districts. This past weekend, which ... (click for more)