Rick Wagner

Tennessee

Education Reporter at Kingsport Times-News

Education writer, Kingsport Times-News, Kingsport, Tenn.

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Kingsport schools to spend $1M in reserves to balance $105M budget

1 day ago | timesnews.net | Rick Wagner

KINGSPORT — Even with a proposed $1 million funding increase from Kingsport leaders, the city school system is still planning to dip into its unrestricted fund balance by slightly more than $1 million. However, Kingsport City Schools otherwise for fiscal 2025-26 would have had about $2 million to make up by spending cuts and/or spending more fund balance.
2025 Congressional App Challenge open for submissions

6 days ago | timesnews.net | Rick Wagner

WASHINGTON — If you're a middle school or high school student with interest and ability in computer science, the U.S. Congress has a contest for you. The Congressional App Challenge is a premier contest in computer science, according to a news release from U.S. Rep. Diana Harshbarger, R-1st. The release said participation in the challenge has grown exponentially to reached underserved, diverse and rural student populations.
Update: Missing 13-year-old Kingsport student found safe

1 week ago | timesnews.net | Rick Wagner

UPDATE: The Kingsport Police Department reported Wednesday that previously missing juvenile Brayden Horne was found safe and is no longer missing. KINGSPORT — Local police are seeking the public’s help in locating a missing 13-year-old middle school student. The Kingsport Police Department is searching for 13-year-old Brayden Horne, identified as a white male student attending Sevier Middle School and living on West Sullivan Street.
$100M Sullivan school budget would use $9.7M in fund balance

1 week ago | timesnews.net | Rick Wagner

BLOUNTVILLE — The proposed $100 million 2025-26 General Purpose Sullivan County Schools budget would be balanced using more than $9.7 million in unrestricted fund balance. The county Board of Education voted 7-0 Wednesday night to approve the budget of $100,965,228 with estimated revenues of $89,752,188. It would require no county property tax funding increase. The proposal is slated to go before the County Commission Budget Committee 4 p.m. Thursday.
Updated: Dobyns-Bennett student wins National Merit Scholarship

1 week ago | timesnews.net | Rick Wagner

KINGSPORT — Dobyns-Bennett High School senior Liam M. Klug has won a National Merit Scholarship of $2,500, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced Wednesday. His probable career, according to National Merit, is music performance, and the funding comes from the corporation. He is a member of “Portail du Son,” a saxophone quintet from D-B that is performing at Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition May 9-11 at Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana.
Dobyns-Bennett student wins National Merit Scholarship

1 week ago | timesnews.net | Rick Wagner

KINGSPORT — Dobyns-Bennett High School senior Liam M. Klug has won a National Merit Scholarship of $2,500, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced Wednesday. His probable career, according to National Merit, is music performance, and the funding comes from the corporation. He is a member of “Portail du Son,” a saxophone quintet from D-B that is performing at Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition May 9-11 at Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana.
Dobyns-Bennett student wins National Merit Scholarship

1 week ago | johnsoncitypress.com | Rick Wagner

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Hands-on activities part of Fourth Annual STEM Field Day

1 week ago | timesnews.net | Rick Wagner

KINGSPORT — Take more than 600 local middle schoolers on a field day. Have them do hands-on activities ranging from virtual welding to foraging for food as pretend panthers and making rubber-like bouncy balls. What do you have? Mix in seven other activities plus some pizza and the venue of the Eastman Recreation Area near Bays Mountain, and you have the recipe for the Fourth Annual STEM Field Day.
Hands-on activities part of Fourth Annual STEM Field Day

1 week ago | johnsoncitypress.com | Rick Wagner

KINGSPORT — Take more than 600 local middle schoolers on a field day. Have them do hands-on activities ranging from virtual welding to foraging for food as pretend panthers and making rubber-like bouncy balls. What do you have? Mix in seven other activities plus some pizza and the venue of the Eastman Recreation Area near Bays Mountain, and you have the recipe for the Fourth Annual STEM Field Day.
Kingsport school draft budget still $2 million out of balance

1 week ago | timesnews.net | Rick Wagner

KINGSPORT — Kingsport school officials are still wrangling with a draft 2025-26 budget of nearly $100 million that is $2 million out of balance. The answer is to be smaller employee raises and using some unrestricted fund balance to cover the shortfall, education officials said. “I suspect we are going to have to dip into the fund balance to fund the budget,” Chief Finance Officer David Frye said near the end of the presentation to the BMA Monday. Frye said the fund balance is about $8 million.