DeKalb Officials Hope To Renegotiate Emory Annexation Deal

DeKalb Schools Superintendent Stephen Green issued a letter imploring officials to renegotiate the deal to annex Emory University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention into the city of Atlanta. Green said leaders from both regions originally agreed the annexation wouldn’t involve school boundaries.

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DeKalb school officials say they were blindsided by a financial loss of $2.25 million a year, after the Atlanta City Council voted to annex Emory University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention into the city.

The money comes from property tax revenue that used to go to the DeKalb schools. Now, it will go to the Atlanta Public Schools.

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