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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