More than 50,000 Clayton County students will wake up on Sept. 2, and go to school in an unaccredited school system because the board of education remains dysfunctional, officials from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) on Thursday.
Six months ago, SACS officials called the board "fatally flawed" and issued nine mandates for improving the board and the school system. On Thursday, Mark Elgart, president of SACS' Council on Accreditation and School Improvement, said only one of the mandates has been met since then -- No. 7 -- Verification of the residency of board members.
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