Discussions continue on whether to use increased property tax revenue for Loudon Co. school district improvements [Video]

LOUDON COUNTY, Tenn. — In the halls of Eaton Elementary School in North Loudon County, Ashley Baessler walks through the halls with students doing reading enrichment in the hallways while other students take an ESL class in a storage closet converted into a classroom. Baessler is the school’s principal.

A proposed $115 million dollar project, paid for by a $0.25 increase per $100 dollars worth of property value on the county’s property tax rate, would add 11 classrooms and an auditorium to Philadelphia Elementary School. It would also upgrade the athletic facilities at Greenback School. The project could also result in a new school serving 7th-graders through 12th-graders in the northern end of the county, next to First Baptist Church. 

Mike Garren, the director of Loudon County …