The Henry County school system is defending itself against allegations of racism after it rescinded a job offer to a veteran educator who would have been its first African-American superintendent.
Henry County school board members voted along racial lines last week to remove the offer to Timothy Gadson III to lead the 42,000-student district. All three white school board members voted in favor of pulling Gadson’s contract while the school district’s two black school board members voted against the decision.
School district officials said they pulled Gadson’s contract because the two sides couldn’t agree on the terms of the contract.
But four African-American state lawmakers from Henry County wrote a two-page letter Friday to Gov. Nathan Deal asking him to intervene. The elected officials charged some school district officials were never serious about hiring Gadson because he’s black, citing examples such as data showing that about two-thirds of students disciplined are black.
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