Here are bios of the six new DeKalb board members. Impressive credentials by any standard.
Here are the bios of the six new board members from the governor’s office.
Both these bios and Gov. Nathan Deal’s comments at the press conference that just ended indicate that the selection focus was on a fresh start and on a board that could work together. Deal noted that several of the appointees have experience in mediation.
The board will be sworn in at 1 p.m. today, so DeKalb can now hold meetings and take action.
As I noted in my first blog on the six, I have seen Thad Mayfield in action; he headed the 20-person citizen panel that reviewed school enrollments and recommended closings three years ago. I thought he did a good job, and the panel was fair and efficient. (That the school board didn’t act on its recommendations is fodder for another day.)
The statement and bios:
Gov. Nathan Deal today announced the names of the six new DeKalb County school board members.
“I tasked the nominating panel with finding excellent board members who will put the school system back on track toward full accreditation, and the panel performed a Herculean task with a quick turnaround so that the board could get back to work on behalf of the county’s students as soon as possible,” Deal said. “We had many outstanding community leaders offer themselves for service, and the high caliber of the candidates reflects well on the county. I faced an enviable problem: It was difficult to choose between so many great applicants. I truly believe that the board members will do an incredible job for DeKalb County. The volunteers who served on the nominating panel and as my liaisons to the county school leaders have given of themselves, and they have made a tremendous difference. I cannot thank them enough for their service.”
Acting on the recommendation of the State Board of Education, the governor suspended six members of the DeKalb school board In February. He then appointed a panel to nominate replacements and tapped Brad Bryant and Robert L. Brown to act as his liaisons to the DeKalb board and Superintendent Michael Thurmond. The nominating panel received a total of 403 applications and interviewed more than 60 applicants before narrowing the list to six finalists.
The new members of the DeKalb County school board, who will be sworn in at 1 p.m. today are as follows:
John Coleman
District 1
John Coleman
Coleman is a strategic planning manager at Invesco. Previously, he held a variety of leadership roles at McKinsey & Company. He also serves on various nonprofit boards. Coleman has a master’s in Business Administration from Harvard and a master’s in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School. He resides in Atlanta.
Michael Erwin
District 3
Michael Erwin
Erwin is a U.S. Navy veteran and has been a research assistant at Duke University Medical Center and the University of South Carolina. He has worked for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Services and is past chair of the NOAA fisheries committees on fish species and fish diseases in Maine and South Carolina. In 2008, he earned a Ph.D. in Biological Science from the University of South Carolina. He has been a member of the faculty at Georgia Gwinnett College since 2009 and teaches undergraduate students in biological science. He graduated from North Carolina Central University with a bachelor’s in Biology and a master’s in Biological Science. Erwin resides in Decatur.
David Campbell
District 5
David Campbell
Campbell is a senior manager with Georgia Power, where he supports the company’s energy conservation efforts. He is a certified public accountant with managerial experience. Campbell received a degree in Business Administration from Albany State University. He is a former chair of Leadership DeKalb, a member of the DeKalb 100 Black Men and an active member of St. Phillips AME. He formerly served on the Stephenson High School Council and resides in Lithonia.
Joyce Morley
District 7
Joyce Morley
Morley is the chief executive officer of Morley and Associates and is a nationally known public speaker and trainer. She is a certified counselor, a trained mediator and serves on several local and national governance boards. Morley has a doctorate in Counseling, Family and Worklife from the University of Rochester. She received her specialist’s and master’s degrees in Counseling Education from the State University New York College at Brockport, and a bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education from the SUNY College at Genesco. A Stone Mountain resident, Morley has lived in DeKalb County for more than 22 years.
Karen Carter
District 8
Karen Carter
Carter serves on the faculty of Georgia Perimeter College where she is chair of the Business and Social Science department. She received a bachelor’s degree in Speech Communications from Denison University and a law degree from Ohio State University. Carter has served as a classroom teacher and has held several senior administrative roles in the field of education. She is a graduate of Leadership DeKalb and is an active community volunteer. Carter is a resident of the Lakeside Community.
Thad Mayfield
District 9
Thaddeus Mayfield
Mayfield is a senior partner with FOCOM, Inc., a Georgia-based business development firm. He holds a master’s degree in Business Administration from Mercer University and received a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Tougaloo College. He co-chaired the successful Friends of DeKalb Education SPLOST IV Campaign and is an active member of several business and civic organizations in the metropolitan area. Mayfield is a resident of Lithonia.
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catlady
March 13th, 2013
1:25 pm
BTW, I am glad there is a new board member with a law degree. Ms. Carter can explain that the board does NOT have to pay the legal fees of a superintendent charged with RICO violations. (Nor would it have to pay the legal fees if the Lewis were accused of holding up a bank, for example.) The board should move to recover all fees paid in defense of someone accused of breaking the law.
NorthAtlantaJoe
March 13th, 2013
1:26 pm
Here’s the question for DeKalb residents: If you have a concern or complaint, which Board member do you approach? And why do you think any of them will be responsive to your concerns rather than the Governor’s concerns?
living in an outdated ed system
March 13th, 2013
1:27 pm
@Dr. Trotter – we will agree to disagree. I think we are wasting significant taxpayer dollars with the types of governance structure you are endorsing. Ask any Ph.D. organizational expert and they will mock our redundancies. I think the folks on here like @paulo977 are the ones missing the point. The right to choose was taken away because it was the board’s unqualified membership that put Dekalb’s accreditation at risk. This is a temporary stop-gap measure that must be addressed. If @paulo has students in the Dekalb system, now’s a good time to mention that. I will leave it to the lawyers to haggle over whether “due process” has been violated or not.
NorthAtlantaJoe
March 13th, 2013
1:27 pm
One more question – what if Walker and the others run for re-election . . . and win?
Linda
March 13th, 2013
1:29 pm
ITP 1:09 – I read Darlene’s comments as she is a new poster. I found her comments interesting. She made one of the most poignant points regarding the elections being held in July and not November.
I avoid Trotter and ME because I’ve found their positions tend to be self-serving rather than in support of the children of DeKalb County. IMHO, they load their lengthy posts with BS language that clouds their point rather than supporting it. Their BS styles are different, but they’re BS nonetheless.
Dr. John Trotter
March 13th, 2013
1:29 pm
@ Private Citizen: If you are going to engage in any exegesis of my writings, please try to get it right. I have never used the phrase “sl-t” to describe any principals. I reserve that very apt and descriptive word for the superintendents (males and females) who traipse around the country, jumping from one school board bed to the next, depending on what the school boards are willing to pay them. I also coined the phrase “gypsy superintendents” many years ago.
No, the school principals who seem to delight in inflicting pain on other human beings (mainly teachers) are called “b-tches.” Again, this is a very apt descriptor of how these principals (males and females) act.
Exegetical analyses are tricky. Please quote the person correctly. Thanks.
Just a mom
March 13th, 2013
1:29 pm
@Bernie, I don’t know John Coleman but I do know you can live in DeKalb County and have an Atlanta mailing address. I live one mile from Lakeside HS and my mailing address has always been Atlanta. Good luck to the new board!
Bernie
March 13th, 2013
1:29 pm
cautiously optimistic @ 1:14 pm – I ask of you is that the issue here? You may be right it is possible, I agree. can you or anyone provide any clarification otherwise?
Private Citizen
March 13th, 2013
1:29 pm
Do we want to allow the General Assembly to select (not elect) our U. S. Senators?
You realise that the approval rating of Congress is at about 15%? You could have the post man who can not get the right mail in the boxes, have them appoint the Senators and it would be better. At least they would not be selling out the post man to corporate interests.
Doris M
March 13th, 2013
1:31 pm
I just love reading all these comments. What a wonderful world we live in! We can all have our say, whether it be positive or negative. Therefore, leave Dr. John Trotter alone; he’s just having his entitled say. I wish all of you had been so active before. Let the comments flow, Maureen!
Private Citizen
March 13th, 2013
1:31 pm
Dr. Trotter, If you went out to Stanford slanging all of that lingo, they’d throw you out on your head. Just an observation. Hey, get with Paulo and go out there for a visit. Nice campus. Big ranch.
Dr. John Trotter
March 13th, 2013
1:32 pm
Linda, all BS aside, do you think that in this lifetime you would ever deign to stoop so low so as to actually refute a single thing that I have said, O Thou Wise Lady?
Bernie
March 13th, 2013
1:33 pm
Just a mom @ 1:29 pm – Here comes the excuses, cover -up, apologies and the AlL sayers of saying NEVR MIND THIS! Keep moving along. We know just what we are doing here! And that my friend is exactly MY POINT!
Never mind the question raised is a intutiive OBSERVATION that cannot be denied. since when did we let a little thing like TRUTH, get in the way of ALL
of OUR LIES?
Cobb Taxpayer
March 13th, 2013
1:33 pm
Wow, very impressed that the new Board member qualifications – non look like politicans ! This Board has true promise for the students of Dekalb.
Wish we had this type of talent leading the Cobb School District -
Dr. John Trotter
March 13th, 2013
1:34 pm
Doris M, we live in a wonderful country, don’t we? I love being an American!
Decatur Dad
March 13th, 2013
1:35 pm
@rlm – I certainly hope that Nathan Deal is not what you consider to be an example of “good white leadership”. If so, then we all are doomed. I still do not agree with the decision to let the governor appoint our leaders. Hell, I didn’t appoint his representatives.
Tom( Viet Vet-USAF)
March 13th, 2013
1:36 pm
Just a couple of thoughts here. All these people appear to be very successful, so the $18,000 salary is certainly not the reason they accepted this job? That did not appear the case with the previous board members. Dr Trotter – so you are saying that the voters should decide and if the people elected do a poor job, the people should just learn to live with it? Dr Trotter – I do not know much about you, do you live in Clayton County and did you not run for a public office and failed to get elected. If a hobbit can get elected Sheriff there, it does not say much about your failure to be elected there!
Private Citizen
March 13th, 2013
1:37 pm
living in an outdated ed system With you on organisational redundancy = sponge money, not to mention inefficient operations. Even an old lady brought it up to me recently, just out of nowhere. Friends and family apparently is everywhere in Georgia governance. And it is a terrible thing trying to deal with these thieves and them wanting to “make lots of rules” for people.
OriginalProf
March 13th, 2013
1:38 pm
@ Private Citizen, March 13th, 12:59 pm.
I suggest that you Google “Clayton County School Board 2007 [or 2008] Dr. John Trotter.” Clayton County also went through the experience of losing its SACS school accreditation in 2008 because of its county school board, and it suffered terrible economic consequences from which the county has not yet fully recovered. I think that’s in the minds of nearly everyone in DeKalb now. You’ll find quite a few entries about Dr. Trotter’s involvement, including an AJC reference to him as “a Svengali” of [former] school board members, that are informative and perhaps still relevant.
Dr. John Trotter
March 13th, 2013
1:38 pm
@ Private Citizen, I have no desire to go to Stanford or any other weeny campus or other location where my rights as an American Citizen are abridged. In fact, I don’t too often pull for the Stanford Tree even in sports events. I like teams like the Idaho Vandals. Ha!
Private Citizen
March 13th, 2013
1:39 pm
I love being an American!
Until you need services. The “American” idea of “services” is the IRS.
Linda
March 13th, 2013
1:41 pm
LOL – Dr. Trotter – I neither refute nor support what you say, because I don’t read it anymore. I recall from the past that you’ve said that lack of student discipline one of the main problems for teachers today. I agree with that perspective, and that’s why my child is no longer in public school. As a resident of DeKalb, I care about my friends whose children go to public school here. That’s why I read about it.
bu2
March 13th, 2013
1:42 pm
@intown
I think Darlene’s off-base, but she’s entitled to her rant. With the proposed city of Lakeside trying to take all of Tucker’s commercial districts, there is some reason for concern about Tucker’s options.
@parent
What’s the quote? “Democracy is a messy, lousy system until you compare it to the alternatives.” I find comments like yours disturbing. You don’t like Democracy when it doesn’t go your way. We have too many quick-fix politicians who believe the ends justifies the means.
I don’t agree with Dr. Trotter that the removal law is unconstitutional as the state has responsibility in the constitution for education and funds most of it. I do agree with him that removing elected officials requires a very high bar. With 5 of the 9 seats turning over in the last elections, I don’t believe that threshold was passed in Dekalb.
I’m also concerned with the practical implications. How big a mess do we have if the law is ruled unconstitutional? What happens to the citizen fervor for reforms with the newly appointed board? Do we truly have a board that will focus on educating students?
Now it does look like a good, well-qualfied mix of new people. I’m glad the 4 who didn’t get turned out aren’t on the board anymore. But I’m not satisified with the process and still concerned about the long-term outcome.
P99three
March 13th, 2013
1:44 pm
Why don’t the naysayers understand that these highly educated, or ‘MBA trained’ replacements have spent more time going to school than many others. As a result, they understand the value of a good education, and have seen examples of good teachers as well as bad ones. So the business education vs. school admin. experience argument is ill informed.
I’m sure they are all very opinionated on the type of education they would want their own kids to have, perhaps more like their own, and therefore are MORE qualified to serve in these roles. As someone mentioned, the resumes of the fired board members were embarrassing at best, and really more of a joke.
Chamblee Dad
March 13th, 2013
1:45 pm
@bernie Cautiously is almost certainly right, I believe Coleman lives in the new Brookhaven, formally unincorporated DeKalb. Not throwing out street addresses. If I’m wrong on that someone will correct me. So address would have recently been “Atlanta.” My home is in recently-annexed Chamblee 30341, my office in Dunwoody 30338, but I still use Atlanta on both, if zip is right, mail gets there. You really think they wouldn’t check that? Perhaps you should stop looking for picky reasons to complain about people you obviously don’t know. Pretty quick to smell a huge rat.
Bill
March 13th, 2013
1:46 pm
2 PHD’s, 2 MBA’s and CPA .. WOW!
Sure beats 1 felon, 2 worthless S.Deklab high School degrees, and a delusional “man of God”
Maureen Downey
March 13th, 2013
1:47 pm
@Bernie, The candidates all met residency requirements.
Maureen
Brian
March 13th, 2013
1:48 pm
These school boards are an example of why true democracy is such a bad idea.
war eagle
March 13th, 2013
1:48 pm
I love the comment that one “official” made-think it was Walker. “if the Gov. can remove elected people, why can’t the President remove a Gov?” B/C that would be interfering in State’s rights of self governing. Amazing how some of these people are just plain uninformed. The Gov. has made a sound decision and it makes no difference, except maybe to the NAACP- the association for Causing Problems, what their race or political party is. If they can get the job done, so be it. These appointees by the Gov. appear to be a good selection, Masters degrees, law degrees, good mix of background. Well Educated people that could make a good, sound decision. So, let’s see what they can do. Hopefully, the last bunch won’t be re elected.
DeKalb Parent
March 13th, 2013
1:49 pm
Thus speaketh, “Dr.” Trotter, whose idea of democracy is using MACE and union dues to buy off school board members in the name of “teachers’ rights.” He’s mad because he can’t do that with these appointees. He has already helped bring down Clayton Schools. To him “teachers’ rights” = No Teacher Accountability. Please stay out of DeKalb.
bigbill
March 13th, 2013
1:49 pm
Maureen, in your recent blog entitled “Where are the voices of the teachers in DeKalb Mess – here is one and he’s not holding back,” the anonymous DeKalb teacher made this important point in his excellent comment: “The more we treat education like a business, the further away from ever fixing it we get.” I couldn’t agree more. I certainly remember the role of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce in the APS cheating scandal as they initially tried to stage manage the public relations response with what amounted to a cover-up and thus garnered great criticism for themselves in the official report on the scandal that was finally published. Managing public schools pursuant to business mandated principles and practices has been a seriously misguided and utter failure but the corporate types are not going to give up. After all there are huge profits to be made in privatizing public schools across the country and they want those taxpayer funds in their coffers.
And now, I believe, big business is about to exert its influence once again in the public school arena in DeKalb County in the form of John Coleman who has been appointed as a replacement DBOE member for District One by Governor Deal. Mr. Coleman’s bio indicates he is a strategic planning manager at the giant asset management corporation Invesco and was formerly employed by another giant investment corporation McKinsey and Company. The website Campaign Money.Com lists one “John Coleman, Atlanta, GA 30341″ whose employer is “Invesco/Strategy” as having made two campaign contributions of $250.00 each on 10-02-2012 to “Romney Victory Inc. Republican.” Click here to see the report:
http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/john-coleman.asp?cycle=12
Assuming this is the same John Coleman who now represents District One and I believe he is, I would respectfully submit that the pro-school choice – public school privatization forces now have one of their own as a DBOE member because Mr. Coleman supported the election of Mitt Romney and the Romney campaign platform along with the Republican platform itself were clearly aligned with the pro-corporation, pro-choice – public school privatization strategy. And now, thanks to Republican Governor Nathan Deal, I believe that the big-business, pro-corporation, pro-public school privatization viewpoint will now be well represented on the DeKalb Board of Education. And that’s not good for the concept of retaining traditional public school universal education in DeKalb County, Georgia.
ssmith
March 13th, 2013
1:50 pm
I need one of them to help me balance my checkbook! Kudos for raising the bar.
Chamblee Dad
March 13th, 2013
1:50 pm
@ bu2 “I’m also concerned with the practical implications. How big a mess do we have if the law is ruled unconstitutional?” I’m still trying to find out where that process stands regasrding certified questions to the GA SC. They rule that way, THAT would be a mess. Then Elgart might get his “slow down” which BTW is one of the most-baffling comments out of SACS.
@catlady I do agree that investigation of SACS after the dust settles is more than needed. But for now, if they got us here, I’ll take that, just for today.
Bernie
March 13th, 2013
1:50 pm
Chamblee Dad @ 1:45 pm – One can only proceed based on what is written and provided. I believe or I think or I suspect, or I assume does not properly provide the answer to the question raised! would you not agree?…We are not talking a mail delivery issue here?
Just another deflection….The smell is WAFTING NOW!
If you throw a Rock in the middle of a Group of pigs, the one that Yells is the one you HIT.
Good News
March 13th, 2013
1:51 pm
I will take any of these six people over Sarah Copelin-Wood or Eugene Walker any time any day. These people were not elected and do not have to maintain the status quo or cave to any special interest groups like typical politicians. Please let us hope they can put the racial divides and the south county versus north county BS that has gone on way too long.
Dr. John Trotter
March 13th, 2013
1:51 pm
@ OriginalProf: I loved being called “the Svengali.” The AJC editorials called me that on more than one occasion. Called me even more comical names, but then, all of a sudden, the AJC apparently erased this data base from its digital archives. Perhaps the AJC began to realize that it wasn’t this “white puppet master” after all who was causing the problems in Clayton County. I just helped people (black and white) get elected in Clayton County…to many different offices (school board seats were minor and pretty easy for me to help them win). I liked the Clayton News/Daily columnist who wrote that I had “hypnotic powers.” So, I warn you…you better watch out and not read too much of what I write. I am sort of like Rasputin, I suppose.
Oh yes, and Mark Elgart and SACS have done wonders for the economy and aesthetics of Clayton County. Now Southlake Mall, the only anchor mall in Clayco, is in foreclosure. Lowe’s, Publix, and Piccadilly Restaurant have closed on Highway 85 in Riverdale. Yes, yes. This Saintly Messiah from the Heavenly Alpharetta descended with grace and mercy to save the little school children of Clayton County, and now the community is just wonderful. Now wonder the voters voted back in the crimefighter, Victor Hill. The thugs had taken over, and the voters needed their own thug, Victor Hill, to get the street thugs back in line. Had I still lived there, I too would have voted for Sheriff Hill. Yes, Markie Mark Elgart, your solution is wonderful. Let’s save this community by bombing it. Call in the Napalm! We want to help DeKalb like we helped Clayton! The sewage pipe is busted on 23rd Street. Let’s nuke all of 23rd Street. This ought to cure the leak!
cautiously optimistic
March 13th, 2013
1:52 pm
@Bernie 1:29pm – I do not know personally if he lives in the district, though the AJC and other media sources reported that was one of the criteria to be considered. With all the drama that has surrounded this, I do not think Gov Deal would try and pull a fast one and appoint someone from outside the district. There were several well qualified candidates that I know personally, from District 1, though some had some background in politics, which may be one of the reasons they weren’t selected.
Bernie
March 13th, 2013
1:52 pm
I stand corrected….but Like Reagan says …VERIFY!
Another comment
March 13th, 2013
1:52 pm
I see that three of these selections are educators. I would agree with the person who praised that Ms. Carter had her education degree from SUNY @ Brookport. As a proud Yankee, who is a Regents graduate from NY schools in Western NY. the education I received is far superior than my Children received. Dekalb should be jumping for joy to have someone trained to be an Educatur at a SUNY school. They produce superior educator than any I have seen at any at of the Georgia products my children have had. That includes, the UGA grads my child had at Catholic School, the West Georgia and Albany State Grads at Public Schools. You do not get a teaching creditential from SUNY Brookport if you do not know how to teach proper English reading, grammer and writing. You also know how to do proper Math. As New York State realized that Math 1,2,3 was crap wrong ago. The major thing is that New York state is a series of small 1 high school and their feeder school districts with local control, that are high performing. Even these small schools, have Vocational Education options, New York State is not afraid to track children. I think it is wonderful to have someone from a SUNY Education School on the Board.
It is also great that their are two people who teach at the community college level. They see everyday the deficiency that is brought on by the flaws of the K-12 system warehousing our children. They know what our children need to be prepared. They also know that not every child needs this single 4 year college track, since they are at the 2 year college level. Bravo.
I was fully expecting to see Kathleen Mathers name on this board. So I am just saying Bravo, at the compisition of the board.
I really wish that Nancy Jester did not have to be the Carnage. Hopefully she can get her seat back, or lead the way to the new Dunwoody/SandySprings District.
dee3197
March 13th, 2013
1:53 pm
Good Job Governor Deal!!! The NAACP can say nothing about these well educated,reputable educators and business people!!! Finally something good happening to the Dekalb County School Board!!! And for the uneducated people out there,you have to have business backgrounds to run a school board because you have to budget millions of dollars for the educational systems of large counties,so get a clue!!!
Tenbroeck
March 13th, 2013
1:54 pm
Have to say the bios are impressive and give me hope.
1bidbob
March 13th, 2013
1:55 pm
I will guarantee that most of these 6 presently or in the past sent their children to private schools. And who could blame them. You could put Einstein, Ghandi, Confucius and other great minds of the past and could not fix these schools. Walk down the halls of most of these schools and you will see they are a travesty. You can only solve a problem with the elements you have to work with. And they dont have too many elements. I am sure they will improve things but my children will never set foot in one of these schools,or zoos. Whichever you choose to call it.
dkpastandpres
March 13th, 2013
1:56 pm
They went into this in a hurry! Some what understandable due to hiring, and many things that the board has to handle. Note, when we applied you did two on line survey’s. I got a phone call on Friday missed the call, called back and he told me he had the wrong number, liar I reversed the number and they were calling me but because I did not answer when he called they passed me by. He could have said that instead he lied.
DeKalb Dad
March 13th, 2013
1:57 pm
I am very happy with the selection of these six people based on their credentials and experience. For all you people piling on, let’s give them a chance to see what they can do. On paper, we have been given a tremendous upgrade in education and leadership skills compared with what we had.
Bernie
March 13th, 2013
1:58 pm
Maureen Downey @ 1:47 pm – Forgive My Ignorance does that means he resides within Dekalb County offically?
Private Citizen
March 13th, 2013
2:00 pm
BigBill, Maybe they will come up with a “charter school” overlay map and do a take-over. It might be better than the slow-motion denial of services, the status quo. I email my friend up north one of the in-house training memo’s from DeKalb (the type thing familiar to anyone in the government schools across the state). This is his reply:
……..high performance learning environment……..
Even Orwell couldn’t have known it would be that bad.
I’m sure (academic coodinator- source of memo) is highly qualified.
Private Citizen
March 13th, 2013
2:00 pm
BigBill, Maybe they will come up with a “charter school” overlay map and do a take-over. It might be better than the slow-motion denial of services, the status quo. I email my friend up north one of the in-house training memo’s from DeKalb (the type thing familiar to anyone in the government schools across the state). This is his reply:
……..high performance learning environment……..
Even Orwell couldn’t have known it would be that bad.
I’m sure (academic coordinator- source of memo) is highly qualified.
Chamblee Dad
March 13th, 2013
2:01 pm
@bigbill As a resident of District 1, you might be right that Coleman’s political views are where you suspect, maybe not. But how he acts on the board might not necessarily mirror that. Perhaps he wanted to join a board of a system he wants to dismantle, but I’m not wiling to jump to that conclusion.
In fact, you can’t avoid that there is a “business” side to running a $1B public school district – one that has been mismanaged beyond measure – well at least until an accurate & thorough audit is performed. And his business & administration expertise might very well serve us well in that regard. I’m going to take at face value, at least for now, that those are the tools he intends to bring to the table.
Queen Noor
March 13th, 2013
2:02 pm
Gov. Deal did a good job today. I’m not a supporter but I appreciate how he handled this and expedited the process. No need to mess around. Now, he needs to turn his attention to Clayton and Fulton Counties!
Maureen Downey
March 13th, 2013
2:03 pm
@Bernie, Yes.