The State Board of Education has pushed back a self-imposed deadline for deciding whether to hold a hearing and potentially recommend removal of the Atlanta School Board, it was announced Wednesday. A new state law requires the state board to consider recommending removal en masse of school boards in districts -- including Atlanta -- that were not fully accredited as of July 1. The state board agreed in July to wait until Nov. 4 to see if the system could regain accreditation. No word on that yet, so the state board pushed back the deadline to Dec. 5. The Atlanta School Board is on accreditation probation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools largely due to infighting among board members. NANCY BADERTSCHER
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Former DeKalb Medical chief operating officer John Shelton will return to the health system next month as its new CEO.
Shelton left the system last winter to accept a position at Mobile Infirmary, Alabama’s largest nonprofit hospital. He will replace former CEO Eric Norwood who resigned last month. Shelton played key roles in opening DeKalb Medical’s Hillandale hospital and the addition of a new tower at its North Decatur campus in the past several years. MISTY WILLIAMS
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The Carter Center will send a small delegation to Nicaragua during the upcoming presidential and legislative elections on Nov 6.
It will include members and advisers to the group of Friends of the Inter-American Democratic Charter.
The delegation wants to learn about the perspectives of various social and political figures, the electoral process and post-electoral scenarios for Nicaragua.
It will not serve as election observers nor seek credentials under Nicaragua’s Election Accompaniment Regulation to access voting sites. SHELIA POOLE
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