Former state superintendent candidate gets schools advocacy job
Former Decatur school board member Valarie Wilson has been hired to run the Georgia School Boards Association.
Wilson, a Democrat who ran unsuccessfully for state school superintendent, served as president of the school boards association in 2012-13. Her resume includes terms as executive director of the Atlanta BeltLine Partnership, Inc. and director of both the Human Services Department and the Office of Aging in Fulton County.
Current GSBA executive director Sis Henry, in the job for 14 years, will retire on June 30.
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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.
