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Interim Superintendent to brief parents

By Ty Tagami
Sept 24, 2013

Interim school Superintendent Michael Thurmond is expected to brief parents in south DeKalb County at an advocacy group’s meeting on Oct. 3.

The South DeKalb Parent Council is holding its meeting at 6:30 p.m. at Towers High School, 3919 Brookcrest Circle, Decatur, and billing Thurmond’s speech as a “state of the district address.” The public is invited.

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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.

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