Lowes Elementary News Today

Graves County Circuit Judge Kevin Bishop has denied a motion seeking a temporary restraining order and a temporary injunction against the Graves County Schools Board of Education regarding Lowes Elementary School. The motion was made in an effort to keep the board from closing Lowes Elementary School after it voted on March to shut its doors for good by the end of last month. The judge’s decision comes a week after the plaintiffs’ attorney, Lucas McCall, and the defense’s attorne...

LOWES — The Graves County Board of Education opened its meeting Thursday to a crowd of Lowes community members, who turned out in support of their local elementary school. The community’s families appeared in droves to ask the board to consider all options before deciding whether to close the ailing elementary school and spread its student body to other schools in the district. Jamie Sears Rawlings led the charge, saying many of the families are considering enrolling their children in...

GRAVES COUNTY, KY — The Lowes community is calling for Graves County Schools to make major changes to the districts facility plan. Lowes Elementary was formerly a priority one project for the school district, but is labeled as a transitional facility in the newest draft of the plan. The Kentucky Department of Education will need to review the plan, and give comments back to the board. Parents like Janie Burchard are pushing to keep the doors open.  "Give our children the chance and our ...