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State board approves four cosmetology schools and sets revisions before inspection
Summary
The Tennessee State Board of Cosmetology and Barber Examiners approved four school applications — a new barber program and three school changes — contingent on requested corrections to floor plans, contingency plans, recordkeeping and program hours. Inspections were required before final licensing.
The State Board of Cosmetology and Barber Examiners voted to approve four school applications Thursday, with staff and board members requiring specific corrections before inspections and final licensure.
Performance Beauty Academy’s new barber program, represented virtually by owner Faye Waldram, was approved after the board requested several revisions, including changing the stated barber student ratio to 15:1, clarifying the contingency/refund language, listing a paper backup for timekeeping and updating record‑retention to seven years. “Our inspector will make sure that that is accurate,” Chair Becky Russell said while reviewing the school’s floor plan and enrollment documents.
Tri City’s Academy (Elizabeth Moore) received conditional approval to change location and expand from aesthetics into a cosmetology/apprenticeship model. Board members pressed Moore to clarify weeks‑to‑graduation math, document supervising licensed professionals for apprenticeship clinical hours and revise a contingency plan that had suggested students could complete clinical hours at unaffiliated salons. Legal counsel Joe Warden told the board that supervising professionals — not students’ personal salon choices — must be documented for apprenticeships.
Clarabelle Institute (new owner Ashley Thomas) and Edge Design Center LLC (owner Joey Brassell) were also approved with requested changes to separate classroom and clinical spaces on submitted floor plans, to clarify part‑time hours on enrollment forms and to correct contingency and transcript policies. In each case the board accepted motions to approve the applications “with the noted changes” and directed applicants to submit revised documents to the executive director prior to scheduling inspections.
The board’s approvals were unanimous by roll call vote for the items considered, subject to the requested revisions and a successful inspection. Roxanna Gamusio, the board’s executive director, reminded applicants that “all those revisions that the members suggested, please have those sent to me so that we can review their requirements and then proceed with an inspection when you are ready.”
Next steps for the four schools are to submit the corrected enrollment agreements, floor plans and contingency language and to pass an on‑site inspection before final licenses are issued.
