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Major execs invested in Hall
In February 2010, some of Atlanta’s top business leaders realized they had a problem. For a decade, they had aligned themselves with Beverly Hall, the superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools. They willingly accepted Hall’s story line of rebirth in an urban school system. They promoted and sometimes exaggerated Hall’s achievements ...
State report depicts Parks Middle as example of problems in district
Christopher Waller worked miracles. Or so Beverly Hall seemed willing to believe. As principal of Atlanta’s Parks Middle School, Waller awed his bosses with the most dramatic of school transformations. Before Waller took charge, 1 percent of Parks’ eighth-graders exceeded expectations on the state’s curriculum test. In Waller’s first year, ...
Mayor: a complete failure of leadership in APS in testing scandal
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed called today a “dark day” for Atlanta Public Schools and said the results of a special investigation into cheating on state tests “confirms our worst fears.” Reed, who became deeply involved in a major dispute that erupted recently over the chairmanship of the Atlanta school board, ...
Investigation: Hall knew -- or should have known -- about cheating
State investigators have uncovered a decade of systemic cheating in the Atlanta Public Schools and conclude that Superintendent Beverly Hall knew or should have known about it, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has learned. In a report that Gov. Nathan Deal planned to release today, the investigators name nearly 180 educators, ...
APS cheating report goes to governor
Investigators looking into cheating on standardized tests in the Atlanta Public Schools delivered a voluminous report Thursday to Gov. Nathan Deal -- the same day that Superintendent Beverly Hall concluded her 12-year tenure.Deal is expected to make the report public as early as Tuesday, after his staff briefs members of ...
Beverly Hall's tenure: Praise, scandal
The first time she met with Atlanta Public Schools principals, Beverly Hall told the principals in 1999, “I know how to swim with the sharks.” In that moment, Hall demonstrated the hard edge she would bring to a school district known for weak academics and chaotic management. Now, though, as ...
Ex-APS official: Hall ordered destruction of documents tied to cheating
Superintendent Beverly Hall ordered the destruction of investigative documents that detailed “systematic” cheating on standardized tests in the Atlanta Public Schools, according to a former high-ranking district official. Hall also instructed subordinates to omit “adverse findings” from a new version of the report and then publicly cited the revised document ...
Atlanta superintendent acknowledges cheating
A month before retiring as Atlanta’s schools superintendent, Beverly Hall finally acknowledged this week that educators cheated to help students pass state-mandated achievement tests. And, she said, the findings of a criminal investigation into the matter will be “alarming.”In a videotaped farewell address to district employees, Hall abandoned her long-standing ...
Saying goodbye, Hall cites APS wrongdoing
Superintendent Beverly Hall, retiring next month from the Atlanta Public Schools, distributed a farewell address via video to district employees Thursday, acknowledging for the first time that evidence supports allegations of cheating on standardized achievement tests. Hall, who has been questioned at least twice in connection with a state criminal ...
Newt Gingrich network boosted stature
Since leaving his Georgia congressional seat in 1999, former Speaker Newt Gingrich has built a network of for-profit businesses and nonprofit organizations that seamlessly promote his vision of American government and politics – the vision that forms the basis of his campaign for president. The organizations paid for Gingrich’s air ...
Atlanta school district vows not to fire workers in cheating probe
Atlanta Public Schools said Monday it would not fire employees who refuse to incriminate themselves in a criminal investigation of cheating on standardized tests. The announcement came during a court hearing for a principal, Lucious Brown of Kennedy Middle School, who has been subpoenaed to appear before the special investigators ...
Beverly Hall closely tracked CRCT results
Beverly Hall could hardly contain her delight. The Atlanta school superintendent had just received her district’s scores on the 2009 Criterion-Referenced Competency Test, Georgia’s most important examination for students in grades 1 through 8. The results were preliminary, unverified and subject to change. But Hall didn’t wait to share them. ...
APS teachers’ contracts held amid cheating scandal
Atlanta Public Schools notified hundreds of educators last week that their future employment is uncertain, reigniting protests from state investigators who have repeatedly complained about intimidation of potential witnesses in their wide-ranging criminal inquiry into test tampering. The investigators, appointed to examine cheating in Atlanta after the state found high ...
Georgia airman used technology to entice Iowa girl, 14, for sex, prosecutors say
They met on an Internet chat site, the airman in Georgia and the girl in Iowa, half a continent away. Authorities said he used all the technology at his disposal to fashion a relationship: text messages, digital photos, online video chats, even a cell phone application that made his voice ...
Machine shop workers discover body
The victim of an apparent homicide was discovered in an upright, seated position early Saturday, Atlanta police said.Employees at Bankhead Enterprises, a machine shop on Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway, found the man's body behind their building shortly before 9 a.m. Saturday. He apparently had been struck in the head, police ...
Trailer park shooting leaves Coweta man dead
A 29-year-old Coweta County man was shot to death early Sunday in his mobile home, authorities said.Officers found the man's body at the Valley Mobile Home Park on U.S. 29 South in Newnan, said Maj. James Yarbrough, commander of the criminal investigations division of the Coweta County Sheriff's Office.Several residents ...
Troubled psychiatrist dies in SWAT standoff
Tributes to Dr. Anthony Allee accumulated quickly on Facebook. He was a “great and kind guy,” one person wrote Sunday, and “a very caring psychiatrist,” another said. A nurse who had worked with Allee added: “I marveled at how much he loved helping his patients.”Another friend, though, alluded to a ...
One killed in DeKalb apartment fire
An apartment fire in DeKalb County early Sunday left one person dead and several injured, one critically, as residents jumped from balconies to escape fast-spreading flames, Channel 2 Action News reported."There was, like, flames coming out of the porch and people started coming out with burns on their bodies," Luis ...
Pedestrian hit by alleged drunken driver also faces charge
A woman struck by an alleged drunken driver as she crossed a Buckhead street early Sunday herself faces a charge, Atlanta police said.The woman was jaywalking in front of The Ivy, a restaurant at 3717 Roswell Road, at 12:32 a.m. when she was hit by a pickup truck that left ...
Cheating probe: Atlanta principal's demotion called retaliation
Jimmye Hawkins probably couldn’t have taken charge of Atlanta’s Scott Elementary School under more awkward circumstances. Her predecessor was among the 12 principals suddenly reassigned amid a cheating investigation that cast a shadow across the city’s school system. Her new boss was friends with the old principal, and hardly welcomed ...
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