Former Atlanta schools Superintendent Beverly Hall is dead

Former Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Beverly Hall died Monday at her home. Hall, 68, had been fighting Stage IV breast cancer. Hall and 34 other former Atlanta educators were in March 2013 indicted on 65 criminal accounts related to alleged cheating on standardized tests to hide poor performance by Atlanta public school students. Charges included conspiracy, racketeering, theft by taking, influencing witnesses and making false statements. Hall, who always denied the allegations, was scheduled…