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Education/Schools - Historical Notes

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Board of Education

The following acts once affected the board of education in McMinn County but are no longer operative. Also referenced below are acts which repeal prior law without providing new substantive provisions.

  1. Private Acts of 1971, Chapter 58, as amended by Private Acts of 1972, Chapter 205, created the county board of education for McMinn County consisting of seven (7) members, with one (1) member to be elected from each of the five (5) school districts and two (2) members to be elected from the county-at-large. The school districts were coextensive with the five (5) magisterial districts of the county, respectively. This act was superseded by Private Acts of 1999, Chapter 61.

General Reference

The following acts constitute part of the administrative and political heritage of the educational structure of McMinn County but are no longer operative since they have either been superseded, repealed, or failed to receive local approval. Also referenced below is an act which repeal prior law without providing new substantive provisions.

  1. Acts of 1823, Chapter 278, established Fentress Academy as the county academy of McMinn County.
  2. Acts of 1825, Chapter 110, incorporated the Forest Hill Academy, the second academy for the county.
  3. Acts of 1832, Chapter 36, directed the trustees of Forest Hill Academy not to expend the principal academy fund, but to put it out at interest "or vest it in a more productive way."
  4. Acts of 1901, Chapter 367, created an independent school district, the "County Line School District", out of parts of McMinn and Monroe Counties. All independent school districts which were not taxing districts (and this one was not) were abolished by the General Education Act of 1925.
  5. Acts of 1905, Chapter 405, created another independent school district between McMinn and Monroe Counties.
  6. Private Acts of 1917, Chapter 296, provided that one member of the County High School Board of Education would be from Athens.
  7. Private Acts of 1919, Chapter 715, abolished the Elementary and High School Boards of Education, providing for the election of a County Commission of Education.
  8. Private Acts of 1925, Chapter 616, allowed McMinn County to contract with any incorporated municipality within its boundaries, to allow county students to attend city schools "under such terms and conditions as may appear just and proper."
  9. Private Acts of 1929, Chapter 425, authorized the payment from county school funds of any deficit incurred by the McMinn County Board of Education in constructing and equipping consolidated schools.
  10. Private Acts of 1931 (2nd Ex. Sess.), Chapter 5, provided for the renewal of certificates to qualify applicants for the position of County Superintendents. This act was repealed by Private Acts of 1935 (1st Ex. Sess.), Chapter 58.
  11. Private Acts of 1933, Chapter 837, set the salary of the County Superintendent of Public Instruction at not less than $2,00 per year and not more than $2,00 annually.
  12. Private Acts of 1935, Chapter 631, set the minimum salary of teachers in McMinn County with ten years experience at $65. This act did not state if this was weekly, monthly or annually.
  13. Private Acts of 1937, Chapter 793, provided that in McMinn County two year teaching certificates would be renewed for four years for high school teachers who had taught at least two years in Tennessee high schools and were graduates of an accredited college or university.
  14. Private Acts of 1939, Chapter 564, provided that the Superintendent of Public Instruction would have a four year term.
  15. Private Acts of 1945, Chapter 528, authorized R. F. McKinney of McMinn County to teach band and orchestra in the McMinn County schools and the Commissioner of Education was directed to issue a state teaching certificate to Mr. McKinney.
  16. Public Acts of 1981, Chapter 106, is an amendment to T.C.A. 2-1-112 which said that the Section would not operate to disqualify any employee of a county, or a city, school system, who did not work directly under an elected school official, from serving as an election officer on the date of the election only.