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Mayor Coleman Talks About The Future Of Local Education

At this time last year, Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman was already talking about 2013 as a year when the community would join hands to improve education. Columbus City Schools superintendent Gene Harris had already announced that she would retire amid the district's attendance data-rigging scandal. Coleman then promised to appoint a commission to come up with ways to improve the district and education overall. A key part of that goal involved asking voters to approve a levy for the district, with some of the revenue going to charter schools. But voters soundly rejected the levy in November. In the first installment of WCBE's annual end-of-the-year interview with the Mayor, Coleman discusses the future of education in Columbus and why he thinks the levy failed.

  

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.