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Rockville parents ask board to amend rezoning plan to avoid moving students out of Rockville

Rutherford County Board of Education · January 8, 2026
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Summary

A Chartersley neighborhood parent asked the board for a narrow rezoning amendment to keep a dozen Rockville students in Rockville middle schools; the board discussed the difficulty of making local exemptions and pointed parents toward the IEP process for individual placement concerns.

Karen Cablio Harrell, speaking for more than 20 parents from the Chartersley neighborhood, urged the board to consider a small, targeted amendment to a recently adopted rezoning plan that would otherwise move some Rockville students out of Rockville middle schools into Murfreesboro in middle school years and then return them to Rockville High two years later. “Our children have Rockville addresses and…

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