While the LOA Board was in a closed, executive session, the audience became an instant open, public chat session with members of the BOE about education issues facing the county. BOE Chairman Mike Lynch (seated, center) and Roger Fields (standing, left), representing the Lake Country Conservatives, a group actively seeking an end to the LOA lawsuit, join in the discussion. MARK ENGEL/Staff
About 35 parents and interested parties attended the Lake Oconee Academy Board of Governors meeting on Monday, June 6. Most were there to urge the board to drop its lawsuit against the Greene County Board of Education. MARK ENGEL/Staff
Regina Gainer, who is running unopposed in November for the District 3 seat on the BOE, was at the LOA board meeting. MARK ENGEL/Staff
LOA CEO Otho Tucker (left) talks with LOA Board Vice Chairman Michael Tompkins (right) at the LOA Board of Governors meeting Monday night. MARK ENGEL/Staff
Mounting outside pressure to resolve their legal, financial and personality differences may be pushing Lake Oconee Academy and the Greene County Board of Education to some sort of agreement about the future of education in the county.
A crowd of 35 LOA parents and other interested parties sat face to face across from five members of the LOA Board of Governors and CEO Otho Tucker at th...
