Parents shocked at North Atlanta High shakeup

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NorthAtlanta High School parents were reeling Saturday from news that the school’sentire administrative staff was dismissed at the end of the school day Fridayand escorted off the campus, according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution story.

“It’sall the buzz in our community,” Julie Salisbury, who has a freshman at theschool, to the AJC Saturday. Salisbury said the news both shocked and intriguedher.

Erroll B. Davis Jr. 

The storyfollowed reports that interim North Atlanta High Principal Mark Mygrant and theentire top administrative staff at the school were escorted out of the facilityon Friday afternoon by security and members of the Atlanta Public Schoolsadministrative staff.
StephenAlford, spokesman for the Atlanta Public Schools, said four of the six-memberadministrative team - an assistant principal and three academy leaders - werereassigned. The other two, interim Principal Mark Mygrant and academy leaderReginald Colbert, both retired, Alford said.
“Weknow that change is not easy for anyone but this was something we wereanticipating since learning that Mygrant was planning to retire,” Alford said.“This was not an adverse action. This was really about moving North Atlanta ina new direction.”
Mygrant,who led North Atlanta for five years and Sutton Middle school before that,retired in May but was asked by district officials to return to oversee theschool until the end of October, when a permanent principal would take over.
In aletter posted on the APS website, Superintendent Erroll B. Davis offeredparents no explanation for Mygrant’s sudden removal or the reassignment of theschool leaders. Davis said only that it is a new day at North Atlanta and theschool had undergone a “total leadership transition.”
Davissaid in the letter that Sid Baker, former principal of Sarah Smith Elementary,will run North Atlanta until the new principal, Howard Taylor of Gwinnett,officially starts Oct. 29. He also listed a transition assistant principal andeight other transition academy leaders.
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