Kevin rejoined the Times Free Press in August 2011 as the Southeast Tennessee K-12 education reporter. He worked as an intern in 2009, covering the communities of Signal Mountain, Red Bank, Collegedale and Lookout Mountain, Tenn.
A native Kansan, Kevin graduated with bachelor's degrees in journalism and sociology from the University of Kansas. After graduating, he worked as an education reporter in Hutchinson, Kan., for a year before coming back to Chattanooga.
Honors include a Kansas Associated Collegiate Press First Place Award for series writing, a Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence award for in-depth reporting, as well as a statewide education award for reporting on the school finance crisis in Kansas.
Kevin is always open to hearing your story ideas or tips and can be reached at (423) 757-6249 or khardy@timesfreepress.com.
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Signal Mountain Middle/High School Principal Tom McCullough was suspended without pay just weeks before his scheduled retirement.
Superintendent Rick Smith has suspended without pay Signal Mountain Middle-High School Principal Tom McCullough just weeks shy of his retirement.
They say they didn't get into their jobs for money or recognition, but several Hamilton County public school teachers, administrators and support staffers enjoyed the spotlight Monday.
Once they’ve read Romeo and Juliet, ninth graders in Carmen Veller’s English class begin a project to help synthesize what they’ve been reading.
In his mind, Martel Smith sees the reason he graduated this year as simple. It’s the same reason he’s stayed out of trouble and the same reason he’ll go to college in the fall.
Signal Mountain Middle-High School Principal Tom McCullough will retire at the end of this school year, he announced this morning.
Demolition is nearly complete on a fast-paced project to open a science, technology, engineering and math school in Hamilton County by August. But now a lack of cash stands to slow construction.
Trustees will undergo a national search to find a successor for Girls Preparatory School Headmaster Stanley R. "Randy" Tucker Jr., who will retire in two years.
Walker County Schools officials say they had no choice but to lay off about 50 teachers this year as Georgia continues to tighten the reins on education funding, leaving local school systems to make grim choices on what public education in the state will look like.
Options for students to leave their zoned schools in search of a better education could narrow as the Hamilton County Board of Education considers phasing out a decade-old school transfer program.
