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At region’s lakes, trend toward safety continues
The wet, cool weather helped. So did some tough new laws. But a more fundamental change created one of the safest summers on record on Georgia’s lakes and rivers, law enforcement officials say. Boaters, officials say, have become more aware of and more careful to avoid the inherent risks on ...
Culture of corruption reigns in DeKalb, says grand jury
To understand the brazenness of the corruption alleged by a special DeKalb County grand jury, consider this: Officials awarded a $2.2 million-a-year tree-trimming contract to a fake company created by a Cartoon Network employee who didn’t so much as own a chain saw. And this: When a DeKalb police detective ...
Secretly taped, Ellis linked donations to county work, report says
DeKalb County CEO Burrell Ellis was having a hard time closing the deal. On the telephone with a new county government vendor, Ellis bemoaned the high cost of his recent re-election campaign. A fundraising event was coming up, and Ellis suggested the vendor contribute at the “maximum level”: $2,500. But ...
Accused school shooter’s path marked by violence, mental illness
Michael Brandon Hill got so upset when his family took in a boarder that he set the house on fire. Later, when other youths at a psychiatric facility teased him, Hill lashed out with such ferocity that it took four or five counselors to restrain him. Last New Year’s Eve, ...
Week after week, Georgia child gun deaths mount
Charles Stanovich adored his little sister. When she was born, he picked her name: Jenn Alexandra. When she wore lip gloss to first grade, he was quick to register brotherly disapproval. “They were so good together,” said their mother, Haydee Stanovich. “He took care of her.” Last July 23, Charles ...
Georgia law conceals information on child deaths
Georgia lawmakers said they were shining more light on the state’s care of abused and neglected children. What they really did was just the opposite. With near-unanimous votes, lawmakers in 2009 restored a cloak of secrecy that limits public scrutiny of the state’s child-welfare system. Many lawmakers apparently didn’t realize ...
Ex-Hall deputy not questioned in cheating case
If the criminal case against Beverly Hall hinges on testimony from inside the Atlanta schools’ alleged cheating conspiracy, it apparently won’t come from the former superintendent’s second-in-command. Kathy Augustine, a close associate of Hall’s since the 1990s, received no immunity from prosecution in exchange for incriminating Hall or others, her ...
No. 2 APS official absent in indictment
In the Atlanta Public Schools, she was the “godmother.” Kathy Augustine’s job, other educators told state investigators in 2011, was simple: Whatever Superintendent Beverly Hall wanted, Augustine made sure it happened. “Everything,” one official said, “had to be run past her.” But when the district’s cheating scandal culminated in criminal ...
'The art of war' at Atlanta Public Schools
The book that lay on Beverly Hall’s desk through years of acclaim and reproach at the Atlanta Public Schools contained neither business-school bromides nor educational platitudes. It was “The Art of War.” The millennia-old, pre-Machiavellian classic, by the Chinese general Sun-Tzu, lays out strategies for prevailing in any conflict through ...
Beverly Hall, 34 others indicted in Atlanta schools cheating scandal
The supposed transformation of Atlanta Public Schools overseen by former Superintendent Beverly Hall resulted from a criminal enterprise that victimized thousands of struggling students for years, authorities alleged Friday. Capping a series of investigations that spanned four years, a Fulton County grand jury indicted Hall and 34 others on charges ...
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