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Tubbs Elected School Board Chairman
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Pictured from left are Third district School Board member and Vice Chairman Jim Beshearse, Seventh District member and Chairman Shaun Tubbs, and Sixth District member and Tennessee Legislative Network (TLN) representative Jason Miller.
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Director of Schools Patrick Cripps and the DeKalb County Board of Education. Pictured from left seated are 4th District member Kate Miller, Director Patrick Cripps, and 5th District member Jamie Cripps. Pictured standing from left are 1st District member Danny Parkerson, 2nd District member Alan Hayes, 7th District member and Chairman Shaun Tubbs, 3rd District member Jim Beshearse, and 6th District member Jason Miller.

The DeKalb County Board of Education elected a new chairman last Thursday night at their regular monthly meeting. Seventh District Board Member Shaun Tubbs was elected to the seat, succeeding First District Member Danny Parkerson who wanted to step down from the position after his term was up. Parkerson had served as the chairman for the past two years. Tubbs will serve a one-year term, while Parkerson will remain as a board member.

Third District Member Jim Beshearse was also elected as Vice Chairman at the meeting, with Sixth District member Jason Miller serving as the board’s Tennessee Legislative Network (TLN) representative.

Each September the board reorganizes and elects officers to serve one-year terms.

Also during the meeting, Director of Schools Patrick Cripps presented his monthly personnel report.

Jaimie Bloise has been hired as an Educational Assistant at Smithville Elementary School to replace Melinda League who has resigned from that position.

Leave of absence requests were Vickey Barrett of DeKalb West School; Megan Carroll and Kristen Rowland of Northside Elementary School, and Joseph Green and Jessica Griffith of DCHS.