Departing Board member John Ahmann opposed the hiring, citing concerns about nepotism.
The Decatur School Board voted Tuesday night to hire Chairman Marc Wisniewski's son for a part-time job, then discussed and tabled a new nepotism policy. The hiring vote was 3-1, with board member John Ahmann voting against employing Joseph A. “Andy” Wisniewski as a part-time after school program provider at College Heights Early Childhood Learning Center at an annual cost of $5,767. Andy Wisniewski, a 2006 Decatur High School graduate, is the son of Marc Wisniewski. He is attending Georgia State University and majoring in nursing-pediatrics, according to his father's biography on the school system website. Marc Wisniewski recused himself from the discussion and did not vote on the hiring. Caroline Wood, the system's director of human …
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Decatur school enrollment rose by 11 percent, double the system's projections, and prompted the superintendent to create a committee to study the system's growth.
Decatur schools opened with 11 percent more students than when they closed in the spring, double what the school system had expected, and the school superintendent wants to appoint a committee to study growth projections. The system’s enrollment is 3,233, Associate Superintendent Thomas Van Soelen told the Decatur School Board Tuesday night. The city system’s enrollment actually dropped one percent, after students who had been expected to attend the system didn’t show, Van Soelen said. The largest growth was a whopping 24 percent increase in the system’s kindergarten class, which enrolled 352 students by Tuesday, more than the 284 the system had projected, or the 298 the system had in May, Van Soelen said. He explained the system’s …
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Joan MacCullah
6:44 am on Wednesday, August 10, 2011
"when she should seek public comment and when she should act on her own" I say the superintendent can do that when she no longer needs the public's tax dollars to run the school. Why is it that the higher enrollment took the superintendent and board members by surprise. Don't we have school board members in the community to interact and know what is happening. Most people in Decatur are aware of … more ›