DeKalb County prioritizes feedback on school closure, repurposing list

DeKalb County prioritizes feedback on school closure, repurposing list

Up to 28 schools could be closed, converted or repurposed, the Georgia district said as it seeks to balance enrollment across its buildings.

Analysis reveals HPM's mixed, negative results in school district projects around the U.S.

Parents in the DeKalb County Lakeside attendance cluster have done a decades-deep probe into HPM and its vice president, Tracy Richter, finding that facility planning campaigns he has led for more than two decades have a history of mixed and financially disastrous results. HPM is the consulting company hired by the DeKalb County School District by its disgraced former superintendent, Devon Q. Horton, to identify underutilized schools as part of …