Wlaf1450There will be combining of some classes in the county’s smaller schools of Wynn and White Oak
By Charlotte Underwood
JACKSBORO, TN (WLAF)- The Campbell County Board of Education passed its 2025-2026 budget in a 6 to 4 vote at a special called meeting at noon on Friday. In total, the meeting lasted less than 10 minutes.
The school system faced a $2.1 million deficit and has had multiple budget and finance meetings over the past two months.
All ten board members were present on Friday, with Brandon Johnson, Brent Lester, Sharon Ridenour and Randy Heatherly voting no. Board chairman Jeffrey Miller, and BOE members Crystal Creekmore, Ronnie Lasley, Lisa Fields, Jamie Wheeler and Ryne Cummins voted yes.
Cuts were made across the district to resolve the $2.1 million deficit, including the combining of some classes in the county’s smaller schools of Wynn and White Oak. Campbell County High School will lose a Spanish teacher, an English teacher and an assistant principal. That principal will be going to the alternative school and the position at CCHS will be abolished. The assistant band director teaching position was added back in by board members. The assistant band director served at CCHS and at LaFollette Middle School and Jacksboro Middle School.
As part of the budget cuts, ten teaching interventionists will be returning to the classroom, but the school system will add 10 new teaching assistants to replace those interventionists. To do this, some classes were combined in the fifth district.
LaFollette Middle School’s library position will be reduced to part-time, with that teacher also teaching English Language Arts half a day.
Seven academic coaching positions were cut with the remaining four academic coaches to serve the entire school district. Those seven academic coaches will return to the classroom.
A school counselor position will be cut from the fifth district and it will go back to the “regular rotation” with those schools being served with a traveling counselor. It will be the same with a Physical Education position in the fifth district. (WLAF NEWS PUBLISHED-06/06/2025-1PM)