Oakridger
Sixty-six years after 85 Black students became the first in the Southeast to be integrated into a government school after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, Oak Ridge Schools is asking the state to include this information in the state curriculum.
Oak Ridge Schools Superintendent Bruce Borchers said Kelly Williams, the city schools executive director of teaching and learning, is working on having the historical information adopted into the state curriculum for public schools instruction. However, he told a virtual audience at an Altrusa International of Oak Ridge meeting that adding it to the state curriculum is “not easy.”
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The Anderson County and Oak Ridge school systems are administering COVID-19 vaccines at events Friday for teachers, staff, substitutes and bus drivers.
“To have this available to our teachers will help them feel supported in their efforts to get back to their classes and return to more normal circumstances,” Holly Cross, supervisor of Career Readiness and Communications, told The Oak Ridger.
“It’s getting the vaccine to folks as quickly as possible and in a way that doesn’t inconvenience them,” Ryan Sutton, communications and public relations coordinator for Anderson County Schools, said in a phone interview. He said it would also help establish herd immunity.