Play Action

Students at the playground event at Fountain City Elementary School.

The Knox Education Foundation launches a $4.5 million campaign to fund school playgrounds, taking the burden off individual schools.

Playgrounds and Policies

Digital rendering of playground equipment including a slide and a climbing dome

Knox County Schools is building new playgrounds for two schools, but most still have to raise their own funds for equipment.

Swing-Set Economics

Playground with plastic slides

Knox County leaves it up to local communities to fund school playgrounds, with the result that some of the poorest areas have the worst equipment.