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Clayton County Board of Education May 2025 Board Meeting Highlights

Transparency & Accountability

Dyslexia Screening Implementation: In accordance with Senate Bill 48, CCPS has started implementing their dyslexia screening process. Review their full process and updates here.

  • CCPS screens students in Kindergarten – 3rd grade three times per year
  • 243 students have been identified as dyslexic thus far
  • While the state funds only the screener, the district has invested in additional supports, including reading specialists.

FY26 Proposed Budget: The proposed general fund budget totals $741 million, with $728.7 million in projected revenue—leaving a $12.2 million deficit. The general fund budget accounts for 88% of the district’s total budget and covers all day to day operation expenses, including employee salaries, instructional supplies, utilities, and transportation. The tentative FY26 budget was adopted in a 7–1 vote allowing the board to move forward with revising the budget and holding public hearings. Review the full budget presentation here.

Key proposals include:

  • Maintaining the 19.6 millage rate
  • A $1,500 one-time payment to full-time employees ($9.9M cost)
  • Launch of a Student Employment Services Division, supported by a $10 million dollar grant from Delta Airlines Foundation.
  • The district’s total proposed budget, including all funds, is $1.49 billion

Budget Timeline:

  • May 5: First Public Hearing was held
  • May 27: Second Hearing (5:30 p.m.) & Final Adoption (6:00 p.m.)
  • July/August: Millage Hearings (if required)
  • August: Final Millage Rate Adoption

School Options & Access

Support for Tapestry Public Charter: Two Clayton County parents of children on the autism spectrum advocated for Tapestry’s approval to serve Clayton students, emphasizing its trauma-informed and inclusive approach for neurodiverse learners. Both parents shared their challenges with finding a public school in their community that meets the needs of their children and praised Tapestry’s small class sizes and holistic model as a much-needed alternative to traditional schools.

School Choice Policy Revisions: The district updated its policy language for school transfers to add clarity around parents’ responsibility to provide transportation if they opt into a choice program. Language was also added around behavioral, attendance, and performance expectations students must meet in order for school transfers to remain valid. Review all proposed revisions to the student based policies here.

Equity

Staffing & Compensation Concerns: During public comment, a CCPS teacher advocated for the board to consider increasing teacher pay during the budget review process. He noted the district has over 500 staff vacancies and ranks 20th out of Georgia’s 30 largest school districts in starting teacher pay.

  • Based on the personnel changes report presented during the board meeting, there are currently 389 teacher vacancies in the district with the highest vacancies in special education (58), elementary education (121), and secondary ELA (50).

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Dr. Keith Colbert

Dr. Keith A. Colbert has served in the Clayton County Public Schools (CCPS) system since 1998, starting his career as a fourth-grade teacher at Northcutt Elementary School. After a two-year tenure at Northcutt Elementary, he transferred to Morrow High School, where he served as a math teacher, special education teacher, and assistant head basketball coach. To gain insightful leadership experience, Dr. Colbert shadowed the administrative team, gained useful school leadership experience, and obtained a Master’s degree in Educational Leadership from Troy State University.

Dr. Colbert was selected as assistant principal of Mundy’s Mill High School (MMHS) in 2003 under the leadership of Dr. Anthony W. Smith. During his tenure at MMHS, he was instrumental in preparing the first class to graduate from the newly constructed school.

Dr. Colbert was recognized as a future principal leader in the district and was selected as one of twelve future leaders to participate in the principal preparation program, “A Forward-LEAP.” After completing this program, Dr. Colbert was appointed principal of Lovejoy Middle School in 2006, where he led more than 1,400 students. At the time, Lovejoy Middle School was the largest middle school in the district and considered underperforming. Dr. Colbert and his team led the school to substantial improvements in student achievement and were consequently selected as the 2008 Georgia PTSA Principal of the Year.

Driven to nurture a class of students from 6th grade to graduation, Dr. Colbert was appointed principal of Lovejoy High School in July 2009, where he served for seven years. He is one of the few principals in traditional high schools who is fortunate to have guided sixth graders to graduation with the Class of 2013. During his tenure at Lovejoy High School, the school was recognized as a Title I Rewards school in 2012 and 2013, SAT’s greatest gains school in 2012, and a USA News top high school in 2011. Dr. Colbert’s achievements led to a finalist for Principal of the Year for Clayton County Public Schools in 2011 and 2013.

In June of 2016, Dr. Keith A. Colbert was appointed Assistant Superintendent of Schools for Clayton County Public Schools.

Cayanna Good, Ph.D.

Dr. Cayanna Good serves as Deputy Commissioner for Innovation and Impact at the Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG), where she leads systemwide strategic planning and drives organizational improvement across all institutional pillars.
Previously, she served as Assistant Commissioner for the Office of Adult Education, overseeing statewide literacy initiatives, workforce alignment, and Georgia’s high school equivalency credentialing program.

Before joining TCSG, Dr. Good held leadership roles at the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement, the Georgia Department of Education, Teach For America, and TNTP. Her career began in the classroom in Houston — an experience that continues to ground her unwavering commitment to equity, access, and opportunity for all learners.

Dr. Good earned her bachelor’s degree from Fisk University, her master’s from Georgia State University, and her doctorate from Mercer University. She serves as Chairperson of the State Charter School Commission, she is a member of the Georgia Commission for Service and Volunteerism, a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., and a member of the Brookwood High School Local School Council.