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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