Atlanta school board plans to name its leader
The newly elected Atlanta Board of Education will be sworn in Monday, and then its members will choose a chairman of the board.
The school board changed dramatically as a result of last fall’s election, when voters put six newcomers on the nine-member board.
School board representatives will vote among themselves to pick a leader after investment banker Reuben McDaniel, the previous chairman, lost re-election to attorney Cynthia Briscoe Brown in a runoff last month.
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Mark Niesse is an enterprise reporter and covers elections and Georgia government for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and is considered an expert on elections and voting. Before joining the AJC, he worked for The Associated Press in Atlanta, Honolulu and Montgomery, Alabama. He also reported for The Daily Report and The Santiago Times in Chile.
