A last word from Beverly Hall, via the U.S. Postal Service
The temptation to write one’s own obituary is universal. But very few of us actually get the chance to do it – and at taxpayer expense, too.
Georgia’s political elite report receiving a manila envelope postmarked July 1 – prior to the release of the CRCT report — from Beverly Hall, written on Atlanta Public Schools stationery.
It was attached to an 11-page, glossy account of her years as Atlanta school chief, compiled by the APS communications department. Click here to see it.
From the cover letter:
“There are dark clouds and some storms surround us, but I am convinced that those matters will be dealt with appropriately.
“You can take pride in the fact that on the preliminary results of the 2011 CRCT, APS showed progress in 4/5 core subject areas; Mathematics, Reading, English/Language Arts and Social Studies. Science remained the same as in 2010.
Overall, the growth from 2000-2011 on these more rigorous assessments, given under the strictest security possible are significant.”
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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Waldo 313
July 13th, 2011
6:59 pm
Hey! It’s not like she has a doctorate in electrical engineering from MIT. She has a “fluff” doctorate which is worth nothing in the private sector. She would be lucky to get a job at McDonald’s. These “pseudo intellectuals” aren’t qualified to shine shoes, yet are running our schools and government. No wonder America is in trouble!
Ms. Charlotte
July 13th, 2011
7:02 pm
Mr. Charlie from the 1930s Jim Crow South is something else that Beverly Hall and her cheating crowd has allowed to crawl out of the basement.
Bill
July 13th, 2011
7:03 pm
Waldo:
She couldn’t even get a job at McDonalds. You have to be able to make change for customers there.
What rock did the APS board look under to find this Neanderthal? Let’s hope she goes back there!
midtown
July 13th, 2011
7:05 pm
Get back all the bonuses Beverly Hall got for great test scores!!!
Then send her to jail.
Hank Johnson
July 13th, 2011
7:10 pm
Why are all of you racist trying to destroy this great women? I am convinced that there was not any cheating going on in APS. This is just another ploy to destroy the Black community.
American
July 13th, 2011
7:13 pm
Beverly Hall needs to face criminal charges and civil lawsuits for her misdeeds. Whatever money APS is paying her should be stopped and recovery of past “bonus” money should be sought.
Beverly Hall
July 13th, 2011
7:13 pm
I am not a crook.
There was not any cheating at any of our schools.
Logic 05
July 13th, 2011
7:14 pm
Beverly Hall is a criminal. She should be in prison.
Another Voice
July 13th, 2011
7:16 pm
Interesting. At one point, I was asked to consider taking the communications role for APS. Glad I had other priorities at the time – the entire communications team should be dismissed. I can’t imagine how Erroll Davis could trust that group any more than the SRTs or Beverly’s handpicked lieutenants (Jocye & Kathy, the girlfriends), the General Counsel or Millicent Few. Erroll, dismiss the whole cabinent and bring in people who know how to work – and have decent morals.
Wondering
July 13th, 2011
7:20 pm
I don’t understand why some are defending the teachers that cheated.
Why do some say when you tie pay to performance it creates a culture of corruption?
I work off commission. I don’t have to cheat or steal to earn my salary. Why should teachers not be expected to perform? All of the corrupt teachers in APS should be fired.
RGB
July 13th, 2011
7:24 pm
I think you all have been too hard on Bev and should apologize.
She would be right at home as Education Czar in the Obama administration.
I’m reminded of 2 old adages:
1. Birds of a feather flock together.
2. When the going gets tough, the freaks turn pro.
No Teabagging
July 13th, 2011
7:25 pm
With statements like that, she should run Nathan Deal’s re-election campaign.
rob
July 13th, 2011
7:26 pm
Unconsciously incompetent…
Obama
July 13th, 2011
7:28 pm
I think Beverly Hall needs to be tarred and feathered. It’s that simple. I can supply the tar, the feather and the lighter.
CPGal
July 13th, 2011
7:29 pm
You should be in jail Dr. Hall. Here’s hoping.
Dr. Craig Spinks/ Augusta
July 13th, 2011
7:34 pm
GODSPEED to Chancellor Davis as he unties the Gordian Knot that is the Beverly Hall-contaminated APS!
The future of The South’s greatest city, our state and our children depend upon the success of his efforts.
John Edwards
July 13th, 2011
7:42 pm
Beverly Hall makes me look ethical.
She is an absolute zero.
JJ
July 13th, 2011
7:42 pm
Enter your comments here
TIM
July 13th, 2011
7:44 pm
It takes a village to cheat the way APS did. Congratulations to the URBAN village of Atlanta, Dekalb and Clayton. You’re a class act.
I bet everyone passed Ebonics………
TruthBe
July 13th, 2011
7:49 pm
Beverly Hall should be fined and in jail. She created fauld and stole from the taxpayers. The Children have been hurt by these low down bunch of crooks. The GBI and the Federal Justice Department should bring criminal charges aganist Beverly Hall and Mayor Reed. Oh I forgot Eric Holder the Attorney General won’t proscute ” My People of Color “. I guess if you are a corrupt Black Politican or Government Employee you can’t be charged for crimes because you are Black. This is way our Country is falling apart because of too much political correctness.
To: TruthBe
July 13th, 2011
7:57 pm
While I’m with you on your other comments, I don’t think there’s evidence that Mayor Reed was involved in the scandal as it predated his arrival in office. In fact, he has moved to oust the school board–probably at some political risk.
Ekim
July 13th, 2011
7:58 pm
With your punctuation, TruthBe, YOU could be the reason our country is falling apart.
Clinton "Skink" Tyree
July 13th, 2011
8:00 pm
Horse hockey!
Voice of Reason
July 13th, 2011
8:01 pm
What this woman has done is clearly criminal and she should be locked in jail as long as the law will permit. Hopefully, she can have a redemption and return to society after paying her debt, but I doubt it.
RLM
July 13th, 2011
8:08 pm
Atlanta schools have been pitiful for years. Poorly performing due to mediocre teachers and cover your a** administrators.
Paul Hickel
July 13th, 2011
8:44 pm
APS – “We are here for our children” … to hell with yours!
The curriculum is a failure implemented by the same, where is the school board going to run when the public gets the fraud investigation of the $1B school construction costs.
BADA BING
July 13th, 2011
8:52 pm
Hey, when is the Jackson-Campbell-Franklin-Hall Airport opening?
Atlanta Academic
July 13th, 2011
8:52 pm
Look up Organized Crime on Wikipedia.
I am looking at the forest from a satellite. I am not looking at the trees, I am looking at the forest.
Can you identify Atlanta after reading Organized Crime on Wikipedia? The solutions are more pervasive than just the school system. Normalisation of criminogenic needs must end, anomie must end.
The solutions are in a city that matures gracefully and finally finds definition. Conflicts must end. Solutions must be found. I found many solutions through understanding of the causality of Organized Crime on Wikipedia. I hope you do too.
BADA BING
July 13th, 2011
8:55 pm
Big Mama Hall, stay in Maui. I hope it tips over.
Richard Braswell
July 13th, 2011
9:12 pm
Atlanta Academic…
You must be a member of the other more prevalent and dangerous of the Atlanta schools, a graduate of the APS, and a card carrying member of the Greater Atlanta Crack Heads Society. A group yet not identified, but certainly attributed to B. Hall and her great ensemble of educators. Fire it up…..
Atlanta Academic
July 13th, 2011
9:25 pm
@Richard Braswell
I went to elementary schools in Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Illinois.
Atlanta Academic
July 13th, 2011
9:44 pm
Claeification – Pennsylvania was Midlle or High School as it may be defined.
godoggo
July 13th, 2011
9:50 pm
Can you imagine if the morally corrupt, incompetent, typically implicated individuals were held fiscally and civilly responsible to the children and their parents ? I believe i have a new angle for an Insurance policy : )
Where are the Civil Rights prostitutes….Jessie “love child” Jackson and Al “Tawana Brawley” Sharpton on this matter ??? I know…..there’s no Corporation to shake down for payoffs !
Atlanta Academic
July 13th, 2011
10:57 pm
Rio
APS Parent #2
July 13th, 2011
11:06 pm
@TIM, come on I know you are feeling a little defensive because you work for APS I have to believe with the posts you make. I think you work in communications with the way you always try and recast the issue.
It won’t work. The people now have the state’s report and finally have the truth. Dr. Hall, any who worked on her cabinet, Sharon Pitts, Office of High Schools, and the 4 on the board “Go to Jail, Go Straight to Jail without passing Go!” (No more money for you except the cost we incur while you all are incarcerated.)
Atlanta Academic
July 14th, 2011
12:52 am
Private banking, tick tock, tick tock
Richard Braswell
July 14th, 2011
1:26 am
Where are the Civil Rights prostitutes….Jessie “love child” Jackson and Al “Tawana Brawley” Sharpton on this matter ??? I know…..there’s no Corporation to shake down for payoffs !
******absolutely correct*********and then some
Richard Braswell
July 14th, 2011
1:57 am
Where is the conference from Jesse (bend over I love you so much) Jackson and Al (let’s smear some feces on one another) Sharpton in defense of the children of the Atlanta Public School System. I GUESS THERE IS NO MONEY FOR THEM HERE.
Richard Braswell
July 14th, 2011
2:23 am
The AJC and the GBI will let Hall and her conspirators go BECAUSE THEY ARE BLACK……..
Penny Lane
July 14th, 2011
2:57 am
I am waiting for the racketeering charges.
APS Parent #2
July 14th, 2011
3:01 am
@Penny Lane, likely coming attached to the feds focus on getting federal money awarded due to falsified data. (Read AJC article online.)
Remember Al Capone went to prison for taxes.
Daughter of Educators
July 14th, 2011
10:31 am
The President of the Newark, NJ Teachers Union, Joseph Del Grosso, recently stated that Hall was under a cloud of cheating allegations for years when she was superintendent up there.
She knew.
Ron Dasher
July 14th, 2011
3:27 pm
With the pervasion of this cheating scandal in her staff and minions, perhaps the RICO statute couild be used against them and get them some real time in the ‘big house’ down on McDonough Blvd. They could put their skills to good use educating the residents of this fine facility. Any state or federal ethics violation charges wil only result in ’slap on the wrist’ type of punishment and she will be back to Hawaii in no time.