Lillie Brooks has lived in Athens since 2008.

Lillie previously worked as an applied behavior analysis therapist for students with autism, a second grade classroom teacher, a Montessori teacher, and a paraprofessional at Cedar Shoals High School and Barrow Elementary.

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Supports improving district-wide literacy rates to ensure students read on grade level by 3rd grade and advocates for supporting students with dyslexia and other learning differences in achieving literacy-related goals.

- Supports improving district-wide literacy rates to ensure students read on grade level by 3rd grade and advocates for supporting students with dyslexia and other learning differences in achieving literacy-related goals.

Access to Education

Supports improving College and Career Ready Performance Index (CCRPI) scores and graduation rates.

- Supports improving College and Career Ready Performance Index (CCRPI) scores and graduation rates.

School Curriculum

Supports the ACCA and believes it provides students with unique and fulfilling opportunities.

- Supports the ACCA and believes it provides students with unique and fulfilling opportunities.

School Facilities & Resources

Supports improving student attendance rates.

- Supports improving student attendance rates.

Student Wellbeing

As of March 11, 2026, Lillie Brooks’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Teachers

Lillie Brooks

Isaac Brickman

Mauricio Mendez

Buket Urgen

Adam Shirley

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- Board of Education members work together to make school policy, set the budget, and appoint the superintendent to run the schools day to day.
- Board of Education members are elected to four-year terms in nonpartisan elections.

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