Another day another drama for DeKalb County, where on Monday the school board voted 6-1 to remove Superintendent Steve Green, cutting his tenure short more than a semester early. The board voted to install longtime administrator Ramona Tyson as the interim superintendent. Green oversaw a period of relative success for DeKalb schools, which has bounced back from nearly losing accreditation to stockpiling cash reserves and boasting its highest graduation rates ever. Now thrust into a search for a new leader in the middle of a school year, the move has DeKalb’s ship DRIFTING…
Atlanta paid deadbeat $910,00 for virtually no work
It’s outrageous that Atlanta taxpayers paid Foris Webb $910,000 for two years even though he produced little record any “work.” After reviewing invoices and emails, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution found he was supposed to be overseeing a petition calling for a vote on the Atlanta police/fire training center. Yet by the time the “consulting contract” was discovered and payments were being made, the center had opened, the referendum never occurred and petition signatures were forgotten. Mayor Andre Dickens and the City Council are blaming each other, but who issued this no-work contract to Webb? No one knows—for now. This incredible taxpayer rip off has Atlanta SINKING…
