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COMMUNITY
DeKalb schools fallout
continues
BY DAN WHOM?
danwhisenhunt@reporternewspapers.net
The chairman of the DeKalb school
board is promising the board would
work together to pull the system’s ac
creditation out of jeopardy, but the
board member representing Dun-
woody and Chamblee thinks the ac
creditation process is flawed.
Some in the community aren’t wait
ing for the board to work things out
and have started a petition asking Gov.
Nathan Deal remove the entire school
board. As of Jan. 8, it had 749 signa
tures.
District 1 BOE member Nancy
Jester wants to turn the tables on the
DeKalb County Schools’ accusers, Ad-
vancED, a national accrediting body
that includes the Southern Association
of Colleges and Schools. On Dec. 17,
AdvancED announced that the system
is on accreditation probation and gave
school board members until Decem
ber 2013 to resolve numerous issues
related to board governance.
In short, AdvanceED found, the
board meddles too much in daily
school operations to advance individ
ual political agendas.
Jester sees it differently and in a se
ries of blog posts said AdvancED has a
political agenda too, namely to protect
what she refers to as “educrats”, offi
cials who benefit from the accrediting
body’s policies.
She said AdvancED’s report about
the school system identifies problems
she’s already discovered. Jester said
AdvancED’s policies regarding board
conduct would prevent her from
speaking about the issues she said she’s
tried to bring to everyone’s attention.
“While I’m flattered by AdvancED’s
extensive use of my research and state
ments, their conclusions, required ac
tions, indeed, their paradigm for ‘team
governance’ would prevent me or any
other board member from discover
ing and properly alerting the public
to these misdeeds,” Jester said via blog
post written on Dec. 26.
Jester has written several lengthy
blog posts since her initial reaction to
AdvancED’s findings. Her most recent
post from Jan. 3 critiques AdvancED’s
conclusions about how the board fol
lowed one of its purchasing policies, a
policy she said was established as the
result of a prior AdvancED investiga
tion.
According to the recently-released
AdvancED report, the purchasing pol
icy in question requires “all purchas
es and contracts under $100,000 shall
be reported to the board monthly for
information only reflecting vendor,
goods or services purchased, amount
of purchase, and the name(s) of staff
member(s) who signed the approval.”
School board Chairman Eugene
Walker requested a report to docu
ment compliance with the policy but
was told it would be too much of a
burden on school system staff, the Ad
vancED report says. The report says
the board chair “unilaterally made
an arbitrary decision, without fur
ther discussion and direction by the
full board, to set a new, lower floor for
purchases for which the Superinten
dent needed to submit a report.”
Jester says in her Jan. 3 blog post
that DeKalb schools staff drew up a
policy it could not follow.
“So, let me sum it up for you,” Jest-
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