School board holds off on cuts
Dunwoody High School renovations will stay on track for now
The DeKalb school board has delayed a move to cut millions from school construction improvements, which means that the cuts proposed for Dunwoody High School, Peachtree Middle School, and Vanderlyn and Chesnut elementary schools are off for now. The board moved Monday to roll hundreds of projects into a new sales tax that starts in July to cover an estimated $37-million deficit discovered weeks ago. That is, if it can. The district will investigate whether it's legal to fund the deficit with the upcoming Special Purpose Option Local Sales tax, the district's fourth. Called SPLOST 4, the voter-approved tax outlines specific new projects it would pay for. Nancy Jester, Dunwoody's representative on the school board, said that the district …
