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DeKalb schools get $3 million to improve management

By Ty Tagami
June 24, 2014

The Wallace Foundation is giving the DeKalb County School District $3 million to improve the leadership skills of administrators who oversee school principals.

The grant is part of a $30 million initiative, and DeKalb says it was among six districts across the country to get a share of the money.

DeKalb will spend it over four years on training and increasing the number of regional superintendents. The district currently has five of them, each overseeing an average of 27 principals.

DeKalb and the other five districts will participate in an independent, $2.5 million evaluation that examines whether and how the initiative worked.

About the Author

Ty Tagami is a staff writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Since joining the newspaper in 2002, he has written about everything from hurricanes to homelessness. He has deep experience covering local government and education, and can often be found under the Gold Dome when lawmakers meet or in a school somewhere in the state.

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