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Cobb chair will not return to teaching job

By Jaime Sarrio
June 6, 2011

Cobb County school board chairwoman Alison Bartlett said she will not return to her job as a math teacher at Chapel Hill High in Douglas County. Bartlett said she was offered a contract to return but opted not to because of her health. She suffered a heart attack earlier this year. Before becoming a teacher she worked as an engineer and then a stay-at-home mom.

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