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Does the state law being used against DeKalb board cede too much power to SACS? | Get Schooled

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Does the state law being used against DeKalb board cede too much power to SACS?

In his passionate closing statement before the state Board of Education on Thursday, attorney Bob Wilson hearkened to fallen soldiers, the flag and the Constitution in an effort to save the jobs of his clients, veteran DeKalb County school board members
“I look at that flag back there and I think about the young men and now the young women who lost their lives defending it. For what? Freedom of speech, the right to vote, they are right at the top, ” Wilson told the state board at the end of the 14-hour hearing. “The ballot box must be given huge, huge deference in this county. If it is not, we are lost.”
A former DeKalb district attorney and one of the two attorneys tapped by Gov. Sonny Perdue in 2010 to probe