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Interim superintendent's 90-day plan highlighted; Clayton schools win $4.5 million United Way literacy grant
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Summary
Interim superintendent's 90-day plan emphasizes alignment, cross-functional teams and a new universal discipline matrix; the district announced a $4.5 million literacy grant (Clayton share $2.5M) to expand early-reading supports and fund reading specialists over FY26———and FY27.
Dr. Ebony Lee presented the interim superintendent's 90-day plan to the Clayton County Public Schools board, emphasizing alignment of resources around teaching and learning, cross-functional problem-solving and clearer communication protocols. "Listening, assessing, stabilizing" were named core phases of the plan intended to level up operations and student supports.
As part of the presentation, Dr. Lee announced the district has been awarded a $4,500,000 literacy grant from the United Way of Greater Atlanta. "We get to scale our work in kindergarten and first grade producing that foundational literacy due to being awarded a $4,500,000 literacy grant from the United Way of Greater Atlanta," Dr. Lee said.
Dr. Lee said Clayton County's portion of the award will be $2,500,000; $1,900,000 will be directed to the Rollins Center partnership to support implementation. The grant will fund expansion from 18 to 25 elementary schools in the initiative, onboarding about 15 reading interventionists or specialists who will work directly with teachers and students, and ramping up family engagement and professional development aligned with the science of reading. The funds cover two fiscal years (FY26 and FY27)."The pillars that were submitted with the grant were to scale our work, strengthen our early literacy," Dr. Lee said.
Board members asked how the funds will be deployed, what baseline data and monitoring systems are in place, and how progress will be reported. Dr. Lee said a cross-functional team will define the timeline and data points to share with the board and that implementation will include reading interventionists, expanded family engagement and scaled professional development.
The presentation also summarized climate surveys, a new universal discipline behavior matrix to improve equitable implementation of the student code of conduct, and expanded career pathway certifications and partnership work tied to the new arena and economic opportunities.
Next steps: administration will provide more detailed implementation plans and timelines, the cross-functional team will identify specific data points and reporting cadence, and the board asked staff to return with additional detail on how grant funds will be used for coaching, curriculum alignment and measures of student progress.
