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DeKalb’s Morehouse men receive national science awards

Competing with more than 2,000 undergraduate students at the largest minority research convention in the country, two Morehouse College students and natives of DeKalb County won top awards – taking home both medals and money. Jabari Elliott and Adr...

School board incumbents Roberts and Redovian lose to challengers

After two terms as District 7 representative on the DeKalb County School Board, Zepora Roberts lost her seat to challenger Donna Edler, who took 72.36 percent of the vote in a Nov. 30 runoff election with 100 percent of the precincts reporting. Rober...

School board races may cause slight spike in turnout

Voter turnout in DeKalb County for this runoff election is expected to be slightly higher than the August runoff, according to county election officials. Two DeKalb County School Board seats are in runoffs, as is a DeKalb County Superior Court judgeâ...

School facilities assessments: Clarkston High kitchen, special needs class inadequate

John Storey of MGT of America conducted Clarkston High School's facility assessment Nov. 3. He rated the gymnasium adequate, as its primary flaws were a lack of storage and missing ceiling tiles. Photos by Pureterrah Witcher
DeKalb County School officials say the cost to fix its older schools is a major factor in which buildings will be closed – and how SPLOST 4 funds will be spent if voters approve the measure in mid 2012. To develop a school closure list and make red...

Voters show incumbents’ connections with community matters

Three words sum up why some DeKalb County School Board incumbents were re-elected Nov. 2, officials said–connection with voters. Jim Redovian and Zepora W. Roberts are facing runoffs, but the other three incumbents–Sarah Copelin-Wood, Jesse “Ja...

Changing attitudes and choosing loopholes may help to keep kids in school

  When a child’s not in class on a school day, he or she may be opening a Pandora’s box of possibilities–hours spent gaming or watching TV, engaging in criminal activity, experimenting with drugs or sex, or simply establishing a new habit of w...

School board candidates weigh in on how they would get system back on track

Candidates for District 7, from left, Willie Mosley Jr., Donna Edler, Richard Gathany and Zepora Roberts, were all present for the Oct. 7 forum. Photos by Travis Hudgons
Several themes—leadership, ethics, money—dominated as candidates for the DeKalb County School Board spoke out at an Oct. 7 forum. Political analyst and commentator Bill Crane served as moderator. The forum was one of several opportunities the 15 ...

School system close to choosing search firm

The search for a new DeKalb County Schools superintendent advanced last week as the school board narrowed the list of search firms to two. The board will choose either Ray & Associates or the Georgia School Boards Association to help it select a ...

New school board candidates press for change

A spate of candidates for the DeKalb County Board of Education stressed last week the necessity for change throughout an embattled school system, including the removal of sitting board members. eduKALB, a nonprofit advocacy group backed by the county...

Stone Mountain football player prevents theft

Stone Mountain High School senior quarterback Jhyree Harris (left) accepts a laptop computer from principal Carolyn Williams to honor Harris’ recent deed to prevent a theft at school. Photo by Mark Brock
by Mark Brock Doing the right thing can be tough for a high school student these days, but Stone Mountain senior quarterback Jhyree Harris did just that by helping a fellow student in need. Harris saw a theft in progress at school and stepped in to h...

School system hires auditor to help restore credibility

Gary Babst
The DeKalb County Board of Education wanted an auditing director sooner. Two years ago to be more specific. But tight budgeting and salary freezes kept the district from hiring one. Now, there’s Gary Babst. The school board recently hired the forme...

Voice of a generation: 12-year-old spreading her message of peace

Mary-Pat Hector sees herself involved in politics 10 years from now—after earning her degree from UCLA. The eighth-grader is on a path that could see those dreams come to fruition. She founded the youth-led activist group Youth in Action about a ye...

Interim superintendent tells chamber audience that school system must change public perception

Tyson: ‘We’ve got work to do’ The DeKalb County School System must prove to its accreditors the administration and school board have the policies and internal controls to prevent future malfeasance, interim Superintendent Ramona Tyson sai...

UNDER PRESSURE : As school system struggles with scandals, outside groups look to influence

When former Superintendent Crawford Lewis resigned in April, school board Vice Chair Zepora Roberts said the board needed to move as fast as possible to select the next chief or the selection process was bound to get political. As it turns out, she w...

Paper trail burns Towers

Towers has become the third high school football team in the county in less than a year to forfeit a game for the use of an ineligible player. A player who rushed for nearly 150 yards in the Titans’ 30-21 win over Central Macon on Aug. 27 was decla...

Lithonia players cleared of bullying charges

Three Lithonia High School football players were exonerated of bullying charges after a disciplinary hearing last week. The charges stemmed from hazing allegations against Lithonia football players while the team was at a camp at North Georgia Colleg...

DeKalb wins race for education funding

DeKalb County Schools will use its share of $400 million from President Barack Obama’s Race to the Top competition to improve teacher quality and help low-performing schools, a school official said. Georgia was among nine states and the District of...

District: Internal auditor raised questions about school official’s book sales

An internal auditor with the DeKalb County School System raised questions about a former district principal’s use of school dollars to buy thousands of dollars worth of books the principal had written, a district official said. The unnamed auditor ...

Move corruption trial out of DeKalb?

Top image: From left, Crawford Lewis, Cointa Moody, Moody’s attorney Tesha Clemmons, Tony Pope and Pat Reid in court Aug. 13. All plead not guilty to charges in a school district construction corruption case. Above: Lewis, right, and his attorney, Mike Brown. Photos by Jonathan Cribbs
On the same day former school district Superintendent Crawford Lewis, his former construction and two others pleaded not guilty to charges in a construction corruption case, one of the defendants asked to have the trial moved out of the county. Lewis...

School board member apologizes for threat following nepotism questions

DeKalb County Board of Education member Zepora Roberts apologized this month for threatening to slug a television reporter who asked her questions about her children’s employment with the school district and nepotism claims. The threat was the wors...

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