OK, I’m a little behind the 8-ball on bringing up this news, but there’s probably still a bit of interest in discussing it.  On Monday, the AJC reported…

Georgia’s third largest school district, DeKalb County, was placed on probation Monday after a six-month-investigation into scores of complaints of mismanagement.

n a scathing report, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools accuses DeKalb officials of engaging in bickering and nepotism while letting district finances wither. Mark Elgart, president and chief executive officer of SACS parent company AdvancED, also said the district had allowed academic achievement to slip.

The decision by the accrediting agency could have wide-ranging effects on the local economy, observers say, from discouraging businesses from relocating to DeKalb to depressing housing values, which already have dropped precipitously.

Yesterday, the AJC reported the reactions of residents and political-types to the threat of losing accreditation.  Some DeKalb cities just want out.

Um, yikes?  From the AJC…

DeKalb County school board members insist they are not heading down the same path as Clayton County and will salvage the district’s accreditation.

“I’m not concerned about us losing accreditation,” board chairman Tom Bowen said Friday. “There will have to be a lot of back and forth with [the accrediting agency] and non-compliance on our part. I don’t see that happening.”

But many of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools’ concerns about DeKalb mirror the questions the agency had about Clayton two years ago, which led to its losing accreditation.

More HERE. Thanks to Nellie for forwarding.