DeKalb County School Board faces budget woes after tax miscalculation

The DeKalb County School Board must delay certain school enhancements because all the plans the district made were based off the money they thought they were getting from tax dollars.

As Channel 2 Action News reported in June, the school board knows the district has been taking the wrong ESPLOST percentage for four years. So now they have to look at new projections, Channel 2’s Tyisha Fernandes said.

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“I think we’re going to need some kind of clear, layman accessible way to present the two things that are happening here,” DeKalb County School Board Member Whitney McGinnis said during Monday’s meeting…

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