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Jonsont's avatar

Wow, I didn't realize Horton had filed for bankruptcy twice?!! And then Hernandez saying the board knew about it before the hire and didn't care about it?!?! No wonder they decided to keep the hire from the public!

Kudos to the Atlanta Journal Constitution for this article. Imagine if something like this were published before Horton was hired in Evanston??!

The only question now is whether the DeKalb County school board is as feckless as Evanston's!

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Tom Hayden's avatar

Yeah, he filed for bankruptcy in 2006 and 2015. The 2006 was is very sketchy and was due to something that looks like mortgage fraud. I'm not sure if the board is legally allowed to consider that in hiring him or not, though. I'll have to look into it. I've been debating writing a story on the bankrupcy but bigger fish to fry, as they say.

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