White County School System

White County High School STAR Student Clay Bolton (right) selected Kalin Kennedy as STAR Teacher. (Photo/Stephanie Hill)

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Bolton and Kennedy are classroom STARs

Stephanie Hill

Thursday, February 20, 2020

There are some new STARs at White County High School. Clay Bolton has been named the school system’s 2020 STAR student. He selected WCHS math teacher Kalin Kennedy as his STAR teacher.

Chelsie Yamamoto

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Top of the Class

Stephanie Hill

Thursday, February 20, 2020

White County High School recently announced Chelsie Yamamoto as the 2020 class valedictorian, with Joshua Adelberg as the salutatorian. Valedictorian Surprised was how Chelsie Yamamoto described feeling when she found out she was the valedictorian. “I knew it was a possibility,” she says.

White County Schools will ask voters this May to renew a 1% sales tax for education.

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Schools to seek 1% ESPLOST renewal

Stephanie Hill

Thursday, February 6, 2020

White County Schools will ask voters this May to renew a 1% sales tax for education. School board members approved at their Jan. 30 meeting calling a referendum for the Education Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (ESPLOST). The current ESPLOST expires Dec.

It’s time to vote on the White County School System 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school calendars.

BOE discusses school calendar options

Stephanie Hill

Thursday, January 30, 2020

It’s time to vote on the White County School System 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school calendars. During the White County Board of Education meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 30, Schoool Superintendent Dr. Laurie Burkett shared drafts of four options to be presented for public input.