DeKalb County school board to discuss superintendent search...

After a failed attempt to find a consultant to help hire a superintendent, the DeKalb County Board of Education went back to the drawing board with another solicitation.

The results from the second “request for qualifications” of superintendent search firms are in, and the board is scheduled to discuss them at a 2 p.m. work session today.

Time is running out to find a successor to Superintendent Michael Thurmond, whose contract expires in June.

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Ty Tagami

Ty Tagami is a staff writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Since joining the newspaper in 2002, he has written about everything from hurricanes to homelessness. He has deep experience covering local government and education, and can often be found under the Gold Dome when lawmakers meet or in a school somewhere in the state.

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