A native of Jamaica, she lost her battle to stage IV breast cancer March 1, 2015
She worked as superintendent of schools in New York, New Jersey and Atlanta. Elected to Atlanta School Superintendent in 1999, she made headlines in the CRCT cheating scandal.
In the final years of her life, she was in the news often for her alleged role in the Dekalb County School CRCT Cheating Scandal. Her last years were spent fighting breast cancer and charges of racketeering and conspiracy related to the Atlanta Public School cheating scandal.
She is survived by her husband and son. She was 68 years old.
A celebration will be held March 17 at 2pm at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Phillip, 2744 Peachtree Rd. NW, Atlanta.
Murray Brother Funeral Home of Atlanta in charge of arrangements.
Closing arguments are expected in the cheating scandal trial on March 16, 2015.
This is the original memorial for Beverly Hall.
∼American Education Administrator. She was the former Atlanta schools superintendent whose renown as an education reformer dissolved amid the ignominy of the nation's largest test-cheating scandal, died Monday of breast cancer. Hall still faced criminal charges alleging she orchestrated a scheme to inflate achievement-test scores for thousands of Atlanta students, many of them the poor, minority children she professed to champion. Hall strongly denied wrongdoing — "to her dying breath," her lawyers said Monday — but faced as much as 45 years in prison for racketeering and other offenses. Neither her lawyers nor her family released details about the circumstances of her death or about funeral plans. With her criminal case unresolved, Hall's death deprived her many admirers and critics of a final verdict on her legacy. To some, she was a visionary who raised standards and modernized Atlanta schools with a mantra of "no exceptions, no excuses." To others, she most resembled a Mafia boss who demanded fealty from subordinates while perpetrating a massive, self-serving fraud. Hall's stature peaked in 2009, when she was named National Superintendent of the Year — for an American school administrator, the equivalent of a Nobel Prize. The award was largely based on the school district's improved scores on standardized tests. The same year, however, the authenticity of those scores came under withering scrutiny. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published the first of several statistical analyses showing the district's scores on the Georgia Criterion-Referenced Competency Test, or CRCT, had increased at rates that were all but impossible. The newspaper also reported that school officials disregarded internal findings of testing irregularities and retaliated against whistleblowers who reported cheating. State officials later documented widespread tampering with test papers, and a team of special investigators appointed by the governor concluded that Hall stood at the center of a culture of corruption. If she didn't know that cheating was rampant, the investigators said, she should have. She was indicted on March 29, 2013, by a Fulton County grand jury in relation to her role in the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal. Shr remained in Atlanta after retiring in 2011, is survived by her husband, Luis, and a son, Jason. She was 68.
She worked as superintendent of schools in New York, New Jersey and Atlanta. Elected to Atlanta School Superintendent in 1999, she made headlines in the CRCT cheating scandal.
In the final years of her life, she was in the news often for her alleged role in the Dekalb County School CRCT Cheating Scandal. Her last years were spent fighting breast cancer and charges of racketeering and conspiracy related to the Atlanta Public School cheating scandal.
She is survived by her husband and son. She was 68 years old.
A celebration will be held March 17 at 2pm at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Phillip, 2744 Peachtree Rd. NW, Atlanta.
Murray Brother Funeral Home of Atlanta in charge of arrangements.
Closing arguments are expected in the cheating scandal trial on March 16, 2015.
This is the original memorial for Beverly Hall.
∼American Education Administrator. She was the former Atlanta schools superintendent whose renown as an education reformer dissolved amid the ignominy of the nation's largest test-cheating scandal, died Monday of breast cancer. Hall still faced criminal charges alleging she orchestrated a scheme to inflate achievement-test scores for thousands of Atlanta students, many of them the poor, minority children she professed to champion. Hall strongly denied wrongdoing — "to her dying breath," her lawyers said Monday — but faced as much as 45 years in prison for racketeering and other offenses. Neither her lawyers nor her family released details about the circumstances of her death or about funeral plans. With her criminal case unresolved, Hall's death deprived her many admirers and critics of a final verdict on her legacy. To some, she was a visionary who raised standards and modernized Atlanta schools with a mantra of "no exceptions, no excuses." To others, she most resembled a Mafia boss who demanded fealty from subordinates while perpetrating a massive, self-serving fraud. Hall's stature peaked in 2009, when she was named National Superintendent of the Year — for an American school administrator, the equivalent of a Nobel Prize. The award was largely based on the school district's improved scores on standardized tests. The same year, however, the authenticity of those scores came under withering scrutiny. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published the first of several statistical analyses showing the district's scores on the Georgia Criterion-Referenced Competency Test, or CRCT, had increased at rates that were all but impossible. The newspaper also reported that school officials disregarded internal findings of testing irregularities and retaliated against whistleblowers who reported cheating. State officials later documented widespread tampering with test papers, and a team of special investigators appointed by the governor concluded that Hall stood at the center of a culture of corruption. If she didn't know that cheating was rampant, the investigators said, she should have. She was indicted on March 29, 2013, by a Fulton County grand jury in relation to her role in the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal. Shr remained in Atlanta after retiring in 2011, is survived by her husband, Luis, and a son, Jason. She was 68.
A native of Jamaica, she lost her battle to stage IV breast cancer March 1, 2015
She worked as superintendent of schools in New York, New Jersey and Atlanta. Elected to Atlanta School Superintendent in 1999, she made headlines in the CRCT cheating scandal.
In the final years of her life, she was in the news often for her alleged role in the Dekalb County School CRCT Cheating Scandal. Her last years were spent fighting breast cancer and charges of racketeering and conspiracy related to the Atlanta Public School cheating scandal.
She is survived by her husband and son. She was 68 years old.
A celebration will be held March 17 at 2pm at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Phillip, 2744 Peachtree Rd. NW, Atlanta.
Murray Brother Funeral Home of Atlanta in charge of arrangements.
Closing arguments are expected in the cheating scandal trial on March 16, 2015.
This is the original memorial for Beverly Hall.
∼American Education Administrator. She was the former Atlanta schools superintendent whose renown as an education reformer dissolved amid the ignominy of the nation's largest test-cheating scandal, died Monday of breast cancer. Hall still faced criminal charges alleging she orchestrated a scheme to inflate achievement-test scores for thousands of Atlanta students, many of them the poor, minority children she professed to champion. Hall strongly denied wrongdoing — "to her dying breath," her lawyers said Monday — but faced as much as 45 years in prison for racketeering and other offenses. Neither her lawyers nor her family released details about the circumstances of her death or about funeral plans. With her criminal case unresolved, Hall's death deprived her many admirers and critics of a final verdict on her legacy. To some, she was a visionary who raised standards and modernized Atlanta schools with a mantra of "no exceptions, no excuses." To others, she most resembled a Mafia boss who demanded fealty from subordinates while perpetrating a massive, self-serving fraud. Hall's stature peaked in 2009, when she was named National Superintendent of the Year — for an American school administrator, the equivalent of a Nobel Prize. The award was largely based on the school district's improved scores on standardized tests. The same year, however, the authenticity of those scores came under withering scrutiny. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published the first of several statistical analyses showing the district's scores on the Georgia Criterion-Referenced Competency Test, or CRCT, had increased at rates that were all but impossible. The newspaper also reported that school officials disregarded internal findings of testing irregularities and retaliated against whistleblowers who reported cheating. State officials later documented widespread tampering with test papers, and a team of special investigators appointed by the governor concluded that Hall stood at the center of a culture of corruption. If she didn't know that cheating was rampant, the investigators said, she should have. She was indicted on March 29, 2013, by a Fulton County grand jury in relation to her role in the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal. Shr remained in Atlanta after retiring in 2011, is survived by her husband, Luis, and a son, Jason. She was 68.
She worked as superintendent of schools in New York, New Jersey and Atlanta. Elected to Atlanta School Superintendent in 1999, she made headlines in the CRCT cheating scandal.
In the final years of her life, she was in the news often for her alleged role in the Dekalb County School CRCT Cheating Scandal. Her last years were spent fighting breast cancer and charges of racketeering and conspiracy related to the Atlanta Public School cheating scandal.
She is survived by her husband and son. She was 68 years old.
A celebration will be held March 17 at 2pm at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Phillip, 2744 Peachtree Rd. NW, Atlanta.
Murray Brother Funeral Home of Atlanta in charge of arrangements.
Closing arguments are expected in the cheating scandal trial on March 16, 2015.
This is the original memorial for Beverly Hall.
∼American Education Administrator. She was the former Atlanta schools superintendent whose renown as an education reformer dissolved amid the ignominy of the nation's largest test-cheating scandal, died Monday of breast cancer. Hall still faced criminal charges alleging she orchestrated a scheme to inflate achievement-test scores for thousands of Atlanta students, many of them the poor, minority children she professed to champion. Hall strongly denied wrongdoing — "to her dying breath," her lawyers said Monday — but faced as much as 45 years in prison for racketeering and other offenses. Neither her lawyers nor her family released details about the circumstances of her death or about funeral plans. With her criminal case unresolved, Hall's death deprived her many admirers and critics of a final verdict on her legacy. To some, she was a visionary who raised standards and modernized Atlanta schools with a mantra of "no exceptions, no excuses." To others, she most resembled a Mafia boss who demanded fealty from subordinates while perpetrating a massive, self-serving fraud. Hall's stature peaked in 2009, when she was named National Superintendent of the Year — for an American school administrator, the equivalent of a Nobel Prize. The award was largely based on the school district's improved scores on standardized tests. The same year, however, the authenticity of those scores came under withering scrutiny. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published the first of several statistical analyses showing the district's scores on the Georgia Criterion-Referenced Competency Test, or CRCT, had increased at rates that were all but impossible. The newspaper also reported that school officials disregarded internal findings of testing irregularities and retaliated against whistleblowers who reported cheating. State officials later documented widespread tampering with test papers, and a team of special investigators appointed by the governor concluded that Hall stood at the center of a culture of corruption. If she didn't know that cheating was rampant, the investigators said, she should have. She was indicted on March 29, 2013, by a Fulton County grand jury in relation to her role in the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal. Shr remained in Atlanta after retiring in 2011, is survived by her husband, Luis, and a son, Jason. She was 68.
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