ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Thursday’s news that DeKalb County’s school superintendent is facing a federal indictment is only the latest chapter in more than a decade of controversies plaguing Georgia’s third-largest — and most diverse — school system.

Dr. Devon Horton, who was named the DeKalb County School District’s superintendent in 2023, is facing charges filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois. Horton and three others “knowingly devised, intended to devise and participated in a scheme to defraud District 65 of money and property,” the indictment accuses.

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Before coming to Georgia, Horton served as superintendent of Evanston/Skokie School District 65, which is in the suburbs of Chicago, from 2020 to

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