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Results require reform

DeKalb County schools continue to face considerable challenges. The district’s leaders must smartly build on recent improvements and keep working to regain citizen trust.
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Illustration by Dean Rohrer / NewsArt
By Maureen Downey
Dec 7, 2013

In the just-completed criminal trial of the former DeKalb County Schools' chief operating officer, the school district sounded like a Peyton Place where threats of blackmail shielded wrongdoers and where the ex-superintendent dallied in an illicit affair with a subordinate.

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Maureen Downey has written editorials and opinion pieces about local, state and federal education policy since the 1990s.

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