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District: Internal auditor raised questions about school official’s book sales
- Local News Headline
- August 27, 2010
- 1 comment
An internal auditor with the DeKalb County School System raised questions about a former district principal’s use of school dollars to buy thousands of dollars worth of books the principal had written, a district official said.
The unnamed auditor ...
Move corruption trial out of DeKalb?
- Local News Headline
- August 20, 2010
- 11 comments
Top image: From left, Crawford Lewis, Cointa Moody, Moody’s attorney Tesha Clemmons, Tony Pope and Pat Reid in court Aug. 13. All plead not guilty to charges in a school district construction corruption case. Above: Lewis, right, and his attorney, Mike Brown. Photos by Jonathan Cribbs
School board member apologizes for threat following nepotism questions
- Local News Headline
- August 19, 2010
- 2 comments
DeKalb County Board of Education member Zepora Roberts apologized this month for threatening to slug a television reporter who asked her questions about her children’s employment with the school district and nepotism claims.
The threat was the wors...
GPC president leads college to new heights
- Local News Headline
- August 16, 2010
- 2 comments
Georgia Perimeter College president Dr. Anthony Tricoli has led a transformation that has helped double the school’s enrollment in four years. Photo provided
Schools open across DeKalb County, but not without a few hitches
- Local News Headline
- August 11, 2010
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An Avondale Elementary School teacher leads students down a side street after school. Photos by Jonathan Cribbs
School district budget outlook brightens as administrators wait for state revenue hit
- Local News Headline
- July 29, 2010
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The DeKalb County School System’s budgetary outlook could see an additional $13 million to $18 million in property tax revenue, but district officials are holding their breath before celebrating.
The county’s tax digest, initially projected by co...
Stopping the summer brain drain
- Local News Headline
- July 23, 2010
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Summer reading programs first started in the late 1800s to give urban students something to do during their breaks while their rural counterparts sweated it out on the farm.
Now they’ve got a new purpose: stanching our youth’s collective summer b...
Attorney: School system could have new superintendent as soon as April
- Local News Headline
- July 9, 2010
- 6 comments
The DeKalb County School System could have a new superintendent by April, according to a school district’s statement attorney to school board members late last month.
But some board members said they wanted the search timeline accelerated considera...
School board to review policies to prevent future corruption
- Local News Headline
- June 30, 2010
- 2 comments
The DeKalb County Board of Education is in the process of revising a series of policies that address the kind of corruption that led to indictment of its superintendent and construction chief last month.
The board’s budget committee discussed the c...
Godfrey breaks barriers on way to Hall of Fame
- Local News Headline
- June 22, 2010
- 4 comments
Southwest DeKalb High School Football coach Buck Godfrey was inducted into the Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame in a ceremony on June 10.
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