Donna Edler is a pillar of the community who represented the best interests of students across DeKalb County during her two years on the school board.
Or Edler is a meddling micromanager who set the school district on a path of decline.
A judge must assess those incompatible descriptions to divine the true Edler when he tells Gov. Nathan Deal whether he thinks she should be reinstated to the school board.
Edler was among six board members suspended by Deal last spring after an accreditation agency placed DeKalb on probation in December. She and four others petitioned for reinstatement, which led to days of testimony at the Georgia Office of State Administrative Hearings. The five hearings last month and this month concluded with Edler’s on Tuesday, and Judge Maxwell Wood said he expects to issue his recommendations within 30 days.
Wood must determine whether each of the five — Edler, Jesse “Jay” Cunningham, Eugene Walker, Sarah Copelin-Wood and Pam Speaks — are “more likely than not” to lead the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to restore DeKalb’s accreditation.
That’s the bar set by the new state law Deal used to suspend the members, a law that Walker has challenged in the Georgia Supreme Court, where a ruling on its constitutionality is expected by the fall.
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