Atlanta schools Superintendent Beverly Hall is scheduled to be a panelist March 18 during an invitation-only event at the USA TODAY headquarters in McLean, Va. Co-hosted by the Council of the Great City Schools, Hall will join more than a dozen superintendents as well as business and other leaders to talk about improving urban education.

The topic has been a passion of Hall's for years. However, state and federal investigators continue to examine evidence of widespread test tampering in Atlanta schools, and Hall will step down from her Atlanta post on June 30 after 12 years on the job.