BOE chairman encourages public input for school director position

By Charlotte Underwood

JACKSBORO, TN (WLAF)- School Board Chairman Jeffrey Miller encouraged, teachers, community leaders, the public and others to stop by the Grand on Central on Thursday to fill out the community input survey which the Tennessee School Board Association (TSBA) will be using in the hiring metric for a new Campbell County School Director. TSBA officials will be facilitating the survey process throughout the day.

“The TSBA will be in town up at The Grand on Central, we will begin at noon with the school board and some local elected officials and business leaders and then throughout the day, this is the moment that everyone can have a say in who we hire as director of schools. Their input will guide the metric used to pick the finalist that this board will choose from,” Miller said, adding that he and the board had “pushed to have this process as transparent as possible.”

“This is your chance to show up and participate and if you can’t, they will be releasing a link on Thursday to the local media and on our webpage for the survey to be done online…we do encourage you to show up and share your thoughts,” Miller said, explaining it would be a question and answer survey.

At noon, mayors, county commissioners, city council members and aldermen, business leaders and member of the school board will meet.

At 2pm, members of the central office staff, supervisors, principals and assistant principals will convene.

Scheduled to complete surveys at 3pm will be all classified employees. Following that session, all teachers are invited by at 4pm to offer their input by way of a survey.

At 6 pm, everyone else is invited to stop by and fill out the survey. (WLAF NEWS PUBLISHED-01/14/2026-6AM)