Sullivan County Chancellor Katie Priester has dismissed a lawsuit alleging he couldn t be a school board member and commissioner has been dismissed. Attorney General Barry Staubus filed the lawsuit and the subsequent motion for dismissal.
BLOUNTVILLE — Former Sullivan Central High School contemporary issues teacher and assistant baseball coach Matthew Hawn will appeal his firing to the Sullivan County Board of Education at 4:30 p.m.
BLOUNTVILLE â Sullivan County Board of Education Chairman Randall Jones said the last conversation he had with Jack Bales was about how to increase teacher pay by âright-sizingâ the school systemâs buildings and employee base.
Bales, a former BOE member, died Dec. 9, and at the time of his death, he was serving on the Sullivan County Schools Salary Equalization Committee that has laid out an early retirement incentive plan for teachers that could result in pay scale increases.
The committee was to have met Dec. 15, which would have been Balesâ 79th birthday, but the meeting was cancelled. Bales served 24 years on the school board, from 1992 to 2016.
Sullivan school board looks at Holston as new home for Blountville Elementary timesnews.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from timesnews.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.