Interview with Zack Banks

Partial Transcript: If you don’t mind let’s start this morning by you telling me your name, where you were born, that type of thing.

Segment Synopsis: Banks discusses his family, education, and career.

Keywords: Jackson County

Subjects:

Partial Transcript: When you started off, did you ever think you’d be a superintendent?

Segment Synopsis: Banks discusses school board members, elections, and his relationship with the members.

Keywords: Jackson County schools

Subjects: School board-superintendent relationships School boards School boards—Elections

Partial Transcript: How many people live in this county?

Segment Synopsis: Banks discusses politics in the county. He talks about how much the county government is involved in school issues.

Keywords: Jackson County schools

Subjects: County government Democrat Political parties—United States Republican Party (Ky.) School board-superintendent relationships School boards

Partial Transcript: What have been the major issues in the schools here?

Segment Synopsis: Banks says that integration was not an issues due to a lack of minorities. He also discusses transportation, consolidation, and overcrowding.

Keywords: Jackson County schools; Overcrowding

Subjects: School buildings School consolidation School integration Student transportatoin

Partial Transcript: What are the positive and negative attitudes you have about the job as superintendent?

Segment Synopsis: Banks discusses his relationship with the state and handling lawsuits.

Keywords: Jackson County schools; Lawsuit

Subjects: State departments of education

Partial Transcript: Tell me, introduce me to the ten most important men and women in this county.

Segment Synopsis: Banks discusses Jackson County and the influential people in the county.

Keywords: County Judge; Jackson County schools

Subjects: School boards School boards—Elections