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Education Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax:

Loving, Quality & Timely Pediatric Care
ESPLOST was established by the Georgia • The school system owns 144 buses, and
Legislature in 1996. It is a penny sales tax maintains a ten-year replacement
EDUCATION must approve every five years. ESPLOST Preparing Students for the 21st
schedule. Ten buses have been purchased
added to all consumer purchases that voters
with ESPLOST V with a plan to purchase
20 more.
provides a method for Georgia school
systems to generate funds for capital outlay
expenditures. Catoosa County Public Schools
has excellent facilities for students because Century - Let’s Get CONNECTed!:
Catoosa County’s classrooms are 21st
voters have approved ESPLOST since 1997. century learning environments, and every
ESPLOST V projects include: student has a personal digital device.
Enhancing Student Safety: • The school system has a patented lock Facility equitability:
• The Sielox Class System is a software system, and all classroom doors are The board of education includes facility
system that enables teachers to being rekeyed. equitability projects in ESPLOST referendums
communicate with administrators, because parents want to know that the
law enforcement, and emergency • Visitor entrances have been evaluated school their child is zoned to attend is
responders. In the event of an emergency, and the school system has installed a equitable to every other school in the
employees can dispatch 911 from a visitor identification system. All visitors county. ESPLOST V facility equitability
computer or smartphone. Catoosa County must be identified by an employee before projects include: a major construction Promise Pediatrics
Public Schools is the only system in they are allowed access into the school. project at Graysville Elementary School, Communities in Schools
Georgia with this state-of-the-art • All elementary school playgrounds baseball/softball fields and facilities at Communities In Schools (CIS) ES TABLISHED 200 1
security system. have up-to-date safe equipment. Ringgold Middle School, a stadium is a non-profit local organization Henry J. Baughman, III, M.D. • Joshua Cole, FNP • Rebekah Harvey, FNP

• Every school has security cameras and • Every school system building is renovation at LFO, and maintenance that delivers the human, financial, 706.937.3331 • promisepediatrics.com
up-to-date video surveillance equipment. equipped with an AED. projects in every school. and community resources needed 375 Boynton Drive • Ringgold, GA 30736
to help students succeed in school
and in life. Coordinators inside
the schools assess students’ needs. Proud to be part of the Northwest Georgia community.
Whether it’s food, school supplies, Visit us in LaFayette I Fort Oglethorpe I Ringgold
counseling, academic assistance, or
a positive role model, CIS is there
to help.

Don’t let the world tell

YOUR GIRL
who she is

Each year around
the first of May, a 24 locations in Tennessee and Georgia
Duck Derby Race
is held on the local Member FDIC I www.firstvolunteer.com I 866.668.4700
Chickamauga Creek to raise funds
to help support this organization. It
is a fun day watching hundreds of
numbered ducks racing down the
WATCH THE VIDEO creek to the finish line to win a grand
www.gps.edu/WhyAGirlsSchool prize and support this great cause.

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