Sara Copelin-Wood and Pam Speaks are two of the people Governor Deal suspended from the DeKalb County School Board earlier this year.
Today, Governor Deal said an administrative law judge has upheld the suspensions.
Chief Judge Max Wood of the Georgia Office of State Administrative Hearings presided over the hearings of the suspended DeKalb County school board members.
Both Copelin-Wood and Speaks petitioned for reinstatement to the offices they were elected to hold.
But, according to an email Deal’s office sent out today, the administrative law judge ruled both Copelin-Wood and Speaks failed to show their presence on DeKalb’s school board would improve the school system’s chances to regain full accreditation.
An accrediting agency put DeKalb’s school system on probation mainly due to poor board governance. In separate hearings, five suspended DeKalb School board members petitioned their suspensions.
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