Beverly Hall

Life and career Hall was born Beverly La-Forte Clare in Montego Bay, Jamaica She began her education career in several Brooklyn public schools. She taught English at Junior High School 265, then served as coordinator of Satellite West Junior High School, principal of P.S. 282, and principal of J.H.S. 113 (now Ronald Edmonds Learning Center). While working as a Queens district superintendent in 1994, Hall was given "control of the city's high schools, special education programs and all other centrally controlled instructional programs" by Chancellor Ramon C. Cortines. In 2009, the American Association of School Administrators named Hall as National Superintendent of the Year, mentioning Atlanta's "significant gains in student achievement over the past 10 years."

Indictment Hall was indicted on March 29, 2013, by a Fulton County, Georgia grand jury in relation to her role in the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal. In the original report prior to the indictment, investigators accused Hall of creating "a culture of fear, intimidation and retaliation” that permitted "cheating — at all levels — to go unchecked for years”; she died before trial.

Death On March 2, 2015, Beverly Hall died of breast cancer, aged 68.