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Cobb County board approves personnel report and affirms two student-discipline decisions
Summary
At its Nov. 13 meeting the Cobb County Board of Education approved the human-resources personnel report (including a principal's retirement) and voted to affirm two student-discipline hearing decisions; both personnel and discipline votes were recorded as unanimous (7–0).
The Cobb County Board of Education approved routine personnel actions and affirmed two student-discipline hearing decisions at its Nov. 13 meeting.
Chief Human Resources Officer Keeley Bowen presented the personnel report for Nov. 13, 2025. Bowen told the board the administration recommended approval of the listed employment actions and announced a principal-level retirement: Jessica Appleyard, principal of Pitner Elementary School, effective Jan. 1, 2026. The board moved to accept the personnel report; the motion carried unanimously, 7–0.
Later in the meeting the board addressed two student-discipline appeals that had been handled in executive session. Board member Melissa Sailor moved to affirm the hearing decision in student-discipline appeal 5, and Ms. Davis seconded; the board recorded the vote as 7–0 in favor of affirmation. Mr. Hutchins moved that the decision in student-discipline appeal 4 be affirmed in part and revised in part as discussed in executive session; that motion also passed as recorded by the chair.
The board handled both personnel and discipline items as formal motions with public votes after executive-session deliberations; no additional details about the disciplinary cases were discussed during the open meeting.
