...until Superintendent Charles Larke can make another recommendation. Board members John Seitz, Kenneth Echols, Cherie Foster and Barbara Padgett voted against permanently hiring Mr. Bailey, and with the absence of Board President Mary Oglesby...
...Capitol on Thursday to oppose Mr. Walker. Earlier in the week, Augusta/Richmond County Board of Education member Cherie Foster qualified to take on Mr. Connell. Both women vowed to raise the incumbents' support of Gov. Roy Barnes' education-reform...
...journalists who aired or wrote "favorable" pieces on a local education subject. In 1998, Board of Education members Cherie Foster, Ken Echols, Adna Stein and others questioned the propriety of having such a publicly funded program. Soon after...
...Mr. Jefferson and board President Ken Echols agreed to push a vote on new officers back to Feb. 13 because trustee Cherie Foster was still too ill to attend Thursday's meeting. The postponement surprised some trustees, who questioned the precedent...
...student achievement." Polled about the issue Wednesday, trustees Barbara Padgett, Eloise Curtis, John Seitz, Cherie Foster and Kenneth Echols said they are for school uniforms. Trustee Y.N. Myers is against them, and board President...
...Mayor Bob Young, Augusta Commissioner Bill Kuhlke and Richmond County Board of Education members Mary Oglesby and Cherie Foster. "You have to have control of the veto pen." Speaking to a crowd of about 150 people, Mr. Porter urged the crowd...
...helicopter and bloodhound teams were also called in to assist in the search. 2nd school board candidate exits race Cherie Foster withdrew her name Friday as a candidate for the Richmond County Board of Education. Ms. Foster, District 10 representative...
...including Superintendent Charles Larke and school board attorney Pete Fletcher, minus Trustees Kenneth Echols and Cherie Foster -- to perform "stress exercises" like deciding, within 18 minutes, which professionals they would save if the...
...seat. District 9 is vacant. Venus Cain and Johnny Hatney are running for its two-year term. District 10, held by Cherie Foster. Mrs. Foster has qualified to run for a seat on the Georgia General Assembly. She will relinquish her seat in December...
...and textbooks, and takes money from the reserve fund. Board President Mary Oglesby and trustees Kenneth Echols, Cherie Foster and Barbara Padgett voted against the budget. Mr. Echols and Mrs. Foster said the budget could be reduced more...
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