Dooly County school board could be removed over accreditation issues
The Dooly County school board last year sought time to address complaints that its members were meddling in schools, a cardinal sin according to accreditation organization AdvancED.
A year later, on Thursday, AdvanceED CEO Mark Elgart told the Georgia board of education that the Dooly board had not mended its ways. That led the state board to recommend that Gov. Nathan Deal suspend all members of the local board over governance and other issues.
State law allows the governor to intervene in school districts where accreditation is at risk. Dooly was “under review” due largely to governance issues.
Deal used this authority to remove two-thirds of the DeKalb County school board in 2013, when they ran afoul of AdvancED
About the Author
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.
