(AJC) — Atlanta’s top corporate executives were fed up. The power struggles, the bickering, the internecine warfare that defined the Atlanta Board of Education had crossed a dangerous threshold.
The school board had become bad for business.
So the chamber of commerce launched a plan to choose new board members who could get along or, at the least, not let their disputes scare off economic development prospects. The plan’s motto: “You Get What You Vote For.”