Board of Education

Bacallao announces for Fayette BoE Post 2

She has made it known in various public venues in the past few months, but south Fayette County resident Dr. Mary Kay Bacallao made it official on May 14: she will be running against incumbent Terri Smith for the Post 2 seat on the Fayette County Board of Education. Read More»

Up to 5 Fayette schools may be candidates for closure, BoE says

he Fayette County Board of Education late this summer will consider closing up to four elementary schools and a middle school to help offset falling tax revenues.

The school board at the conclusion of the May 2 workshop left Superintendent Jeff Bearden with instructions to provide information on the potential closure of Fayette Middle School, Fayetteville Intermediate School, Hood Avenue Primary School, Tyrone Elementary and Brooks Elementary schools. The closure options will also include opening Rivers Elementary School. Read More»

Fayette BoE asked to deplete budget reserves

‘It looks like we’ll use up all the fund balance’ — Comptroller Laura Brock

The Fayette County Board of Education on May 7 got a look at the school system’s proposed budget for the 2012-2013 school year. With expected revenues of $163 million and expenditures of $178 million, the board again this year is being asked to make up the difference using the school system’s fund balance that is expected to total $15 million on June 30. Read More»

Fayette BoE to consider more school closures for 2013-2014

Now Brooks and Tyrone schools may be on the block Read More»

Fayette school board district voting dispute hearing pushed back to May 10

Legal intervention by the Fayette County Commission has, for now at least, thwarted a settlement that would have restricted voters to casting a ballot for only one of five seats on the Fayette County Board of Education. Read More»

Fayette BoE sets school closing public workshop May 2

The Fayette County Board of Education will hold a workshop on Wednesday, May 2 at 9 a.m. to hear from Superintendent Jeff Bearden on proposed school closures.

Questions by some on the school board at the April 16 meeting resulted in rescheduling the discussion on potential closures. The meeting topics provided by the school system also included bus routes as an item to be discussed. Read More»

Teachers’ spokesman: ‘Don’t stop paying our health supplements’

Fayette BoE urged to retain medical, dental pay for system workers Read More»

What now for Fayette County Board of Education?

Election qualifying uncertainties multiply after judge vacates own ruling, orders new hearing May 3 in NAACP lawsuit

What now? That’s the question many are asking after a federal judge vacated his own order last week — an order that had upended the longstanding method of electing members to the Fayette County Board of Education. Read More»

Judge reverses himself: District voting not a done deal after all

Judge rescinds NAACP/Fayette BoE consent decree, orders new hearing for May 3

In an unusual case of high level legal backpedaling that throws at least four Fayette County Board of Education elections into disarray, a federal district judge last week in effect said, “Oops, let’s have a do-over.”

Judge Timothy C. Batten, Sr., in the April 18 order vacated his own ruling from February that effectively ended at-large voting for school board posts in Fayette County and set a new hearing for May 3. Read More»

Stadium turf loses out in tax talk for Nov. vote

If there is to be another sales tax vote for education this fall, conspicuously missing will be any mention of synthetic turf for the five high school stadiums. The turf idea is dead on arrival.

The Fayette County Board of Education on April 16 heard the initial presentation for a continuation of the tax that could be put before voters this coming November. Read More»

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