July 27, 2026 - Board of Education Meeting

At its July 27, 2026 meeting, the Oak Ridge Schools Board of Education considered several spending and operational items. The board approved a $100,000 FY2026–27 blanket purchase order with Ellison Supply for custodial supplies and a $50,000 blanket purchase order with Home Depot for maintenance materials; both approvals passed unanimously. It also unanimously approved a $164,809 contract to replace Jefferson’s aging bleachers, using the TIPS cooperative contract, with funding from city capital improvement funds. The board considered a continuation of the state special education preschool grant, which has provided $283,758.44 since July 2024, and an additional 1.0 FTE special education teacher assistant at Linden Elementary, to be funded from the general fund. The transcript does not clearly capture the vote outcomes for those two items.

Other action items included annual school-bus driver certification clearance and policies required by state law concerning teacher-led instruction and non-electronic materials in grades K–5, and access to school property for outside applied behavior analysis providers. A public commenter urged the city to pursue approximately $200 million in Department of Energy school aid; the board took no action on that proposal. The transcript records no additional procurement decisions tied to that comment.