By Megan Matteucci
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
DeKalb County News
March 30, 2010
Days before a decision must be made, race continued to divide the group tasked with choosing schools to close in DeKalb County.
The Citizens Planning Task Force -- charged with recommending four schools for closure -- argued and pointed fingers at each other at a heated Tuesday night meeting meant to offer recommendations for the school board.
No decisions were made. Instead, the task force asked school officials if it could come back Thursday with proposed scenarios if certain schools were closed.
Claims of racial inequities in determining the closures was a big roadblock.
“If all of the schools for closure are in the south, why do we have people from the north on this committee?” task force member George Maddox asked. “Now you all are in my backyard and I don’t like it at all. We have people from the north deciding which schools in my backyard to close and I don’t like it all."
At the meeting, the task force removed Briar Vista, Laurel Ridge, Medlock and Avondale Elementary Schools from the proposed closure list.
That left 10 of 83 schools under consideration for closure – all in south DeKalb and in primarily poor African-American neighborhoods.
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