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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.
Illustration by Dean Rohrer / NewsArt

Credit: Dean Rohrer / NewsArt

Credit: Dean Rohrer / NewsArt

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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