DeKalb County hires recruiter to bring students back to public schools

The DeKalb County Board of Education is taking an unusual step to deal with declining enrollment: It hired a company to get families back into the public school system.

The state’s third-largest school system has classroom space for close to 20,000 more students. It was talking about possibly closing two dozen schools, but hit the brakes on that discussion for now.

Two DeKalb schools leaders were suspended, demoted. Now they’re suing…

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