Should APS' Board of Education Extend Erroll Davis' Contract?
Though superintendent has his detractors, many parents rally around him and want to keep him. One Grant Park mom has even started a petition to extend the contract.
Just when parents thought the drama at Atlanta Public Schools was settling down, there's a new chapter in the saga. On Monday, the APS Board of Education was to have taken up the issue of whether or not to extend the Superintendent Erroll B. Davis Jr.'s contract for two years. But the board, after some lengthy discussion, opted to delay voting on it until a special meeting called for Monday, Dec. 10. Board members — after a strong push by Nancy Meister, who represents Buckhead — decided that a supermajority of its nine members would have to vote to extend Davis' contract in order to keep him. That means seven will have to vote "yea" instead of the simple majority of five. While Davis has his share of detractors — a good number of them from…
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11:59 am on Monday, December 10, 2012
Chris: How has Davis "not allowed the politics of situations to sway him"? He completely failed to deal with overcrowding at Inman and Grady because of the politics of a few white parents who didn't want their precious babies to go to school with the Southside riffraff. He set NAHS back a decade based on inaccurate statistics and falsehoods spread by "anonymous tipsters" with a political axe to … more ›