Former DeKalb County School District superintendent Cheryl Watson-Harris said she was “blindsided” to learn the Board of Education voted to sever ties with her on Tuesday.
Cheryl Watson-Harris, the now-former Superintendent of the DeKalb County School District, says that not only did she not know that her job was up for discussion April 26, she was abruptly kicked out of the DeKalb Board of Education’s virtual meeting with no notice or even acknowledgement from school board Chair Vickie Turner.
Following the news of DeKalb County Schools firing the superintendent, members of the DeKalb School Board introduced interim Superintendent Vasanne Tinsley, a former deputy superintendent, after the county CEO's State of the County address on April 27.
In 2020 the Dekalb Board of Education paid architecture firm Perkins & Will $2 million to prepare a plan to address long-standing and widespread problems with the district's school buildings.