The state likely will get involved at Howard School of Academics and Technology in one of four ways, and local administrators soon will present their top two choices.
Testing students for drug use is tricky business, so while some local school systems recently have adopted policies, others have experimented and stopped testing altogether.
A public meeting rife with criticisms, insults and outbursts ended with parents and school officials on both sides of a Normal Park zoning battle calling for a compromise.
Hamilton County Schools officials already are plotting how the district might spend its share of federal Race to the Top money after Tennessee was announced as a finalist Thursday.
A local law enforcement program that trains officers to deal with the mentally ill soon can hire a director after approval Wednesday from the Hamilton County Commission.