Dealing with growing student populations
Oakridger
As builders construct new houses and families move into Oak Ridge, the city's elected officials continue to talk about how the city’s school system should react.
Options discussed have included redistricting, repurposing space inside school buildings, or even constructing a new school.
“We’ve worked and worked and worked in order to get new housing and the community growth,” Board of Education Member Ben Stephens said recently. However, he said, the city now has to look at how to deal with this growth long-term.
“Let’s not start passing out a box of Band-Aids,” he said regarding short-term solutions compared to long-term ones.