CHURCH HILL, Tenn. (WJHL) — When Hawkins County Schools made a list of school systems sanctioned by the U.S. Department of Justice for inadequate response to racial harassment and discrimination ...

Hawkins County contains 18 schools and 6,304 students. The district’s minority enrollment is 10%. The student body at the schools served by Hawkins County is 92% white, 0.6% Black, 0.3% Asian or ...

HAWKINS COUNTY, Tenn. — Hawkins County Schools will need to implement several changes after the Department of Justice said it found several instances of race-based harassment and student-led racism.

A state program aims to bring more school mental health professionals to Tennessee’s rural students. More than half of ...

Gladson was a longtime driver for Hawkins County Schools. More than 100 buses from Hawkins County Schools, Kingsport City Schools, and others from the area came together to form a memorial bus ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - On Monday, the Justice Department announced a settlement agreement with Hawkins County Schools to resolve an investigation into allegations of race-based harassment and ...

Those systems include Washington County, Virginia Schools, Sullivan County Schools, Elizabethton City Schools, Hawkins County Schools and Carter County Schools. A second threat made against Carter ...

HAWKINS COUNTY, Tenn. (WJHL) – Hawkins County children were safely rescued from a stranded school bus on Thursday morning. According to a post from the Hawkins County Resc ue Squad, a bus with ...

and bus driver absences," according to a tweet from the schools. Hawkins County Schools also announced they would close on Friday to clean their facilities because of "increased illness." " ...

In Hawkins County’s case, the DOJ’s involvement resulted in a comprehensive settlement agreement, made public June 10. It requires a host of measures by the system designed to ensure “that ...