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Lake Oconee News/File Photo

Lake Oconee News/File Photo

BOE avoids inflation by rolling back millage rate

Maureen Stratton
Thursday, August 24, 2023
Last week, the Greene County Board of Education (BOE) met to announce a new millage rate of 10.311 and budget for fiscal year 2024. The millage rate has dropped every year since 2018, and the BOE recently broke ground on a new elementary school being built off Meadow Crest Road.
The Lake Oconee Academy Board of Governors met Monday night to approve an annual budget and discuss issues ranging from an alternative education program to the status of their charter renewal application. MARK ENGEL/Staff

The Lake Oconee Academy Board of Governors met Monday night to approve an annual budget and discuss issues ranging from an alternative education program to the status of their charter renewal application. MARK ENGEL/Staff

LOA to start Alternative Education Program

Mark Engel
Thursday, July 13, 2023
Lake Oconee Academy (LOA) is developing an Alternative/ Non-Traditional Education Program (AEP) to handle students who are disruptive in class, miss too many days of school, or are not accumulating enough credits for graduation.
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File Photo/Lake Oconee News

GCBOE corrects error in its strategic plan document

T. Michael Stone
Thursday, June 22, 2023
The Greene County Board of Education approved a Strategic Plan designed to help the school system make significant progress over the next five years and made a correction to an error in the document that slipped past reviewers and made it onto the BOE website, causing quite a bit of consternation...
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

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

LOA v. BOE lawsuit - deal or no deal?

Mark Engel
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
At a special called meeting on Tuesday night, the Lake Oconee Academy Board of Governors voted to approve a settlement offer to be sent to the Greene County Board of Education. Upon approval by both boards, LOA would end its two yearlong lawsuit over funding against the BOE.
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