The Lewis County Board of Education met on Tuesday, January 25, 2022, in a special-called workshop meeting to discuss the qualifications applicants should have to be Lewis County’s new Director of Schools following Benny Pace’s decision to retire in June.

Executive Director of the Tennessee School Systems for Equity, Wayne Qualls, attended the meeting to tell School Board members what the TSSE does for rural schools and how he could help the board find a new director.

TSSE is an organization that represents rural schools to aide in fighting for fair funding when competing with bigger school sy...