A DeKalb County School District math teacher, who district officials said walked off the job in November, recently resigned.
Officials said Carl Delano Hudson Jr. resigned effective Nov. 30, though his status in January was "on unauthorized leave" and still employed.
District officials did not say when Hudson Jr. submitted his letter of resignation.
District officials admitted they did not know when he was hired that Hudson Jr. lied on his resume — likely to hide the fact that he was arrested previously for meth possession and that he walked off the job at least two times since arriving in Atlanta in 2016.
At KIPP Atlanta Collegiate High School, part of the KIPP Metro Atlanta public charter school system, Hudson was terminated after arriving for school on Aug. 9, 2016, but leaving before his first class and not communicating with anyone as to his whereabouts.
When he was hired by DeKalb County School District to teach math at Tucker High School in August, he did not explain a nearly nine-month employment gap between that and his previous teaching job at Atlanta Public Schools' Frederick Douglass High School, though the district's application asks for explanations for recent gaps.
On his resume, Hudson indicated he worked for APS in 2018.
APS officials said he worked at the district until November 2017.
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