Atlanta schools chief stepping down

11-22-2010

Education Week

The superintendent of Atlanta's public schools, who was credited for improving student performance but faced calls for her ouster over a test cheating scandal, said Saturday that she will leave her job in June. Beverly Hall said in a statement that she will be taking on "new educational challenges" when her contract expires at the end of the school year. She did not offer additional details on her future plans, and Hall spokesman Keith Bromery said that Hall would not comment further. Hall took the city's top educational post in 1999. She was credited with raising student test scores and graduation rates, an achievement recognized last year by the American Association of School Administrators when it named Hall its superintendent of the year. But critics had called for Hall's resignation after a statewide review showed an unusually high number of erasures on first- through eighth-grade standardized tests taken in spring 2009. The 50,000-student district completed an independent investigation that determined most of the suspected cheating was clustered in a dozen schools, compared to the 58 schools that the state flagged as having questionable results. (more…)

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