Ethics board rejects complaint against Atlanta BOE chairman
The Atlanta school board Ethics Commission decided Monday not to open an investigation into a complaint against Board of Education Chairman Reuben McDaniel.
The commission’s chairwoman, Rebecca Pentz, said the commission lacked facts to support claims that McDaniel received an improper benefit, and the ethics complaint was filed too long after the alleged violations occurred.
The complaint filed by parent Molly Read Woo, who supported McDaniel’s opponent Cynthia Briscoe Brown in this year’s school board election, questioned whether the school board hired a marketing agency to promote controversial policies, violated state law by privately discussing budget issues, or compromised the superintendent search process by including an associate of Mayor Kasim Reed in executive sessions.
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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.
