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The first day of the DeKalb Board of Education’s retreat, held at the Inn at Serenbe among picturesque rolling hills and aggressively twittering birds, was full of politely framed reckoning. After a scathing report on the DeKalb County School District by Cognia, which named the board itself as the district’s weakest link, the board spent most of the day focused on Cognia’s recommendations.