Background
Hall was born Beverly Louisiana-Forte Clare in Montego Bay, Jamaica and graduated from Saint Andrew High School for Girls in Saint Andrew Parish.
Hall was born Beverly Louisiana-Forte Clare in Montego Bay, Jamaica and graduated from Saint Andrew High School for Girls in Saint Andrew Parish.
Hall received her Editor.D. from Fordham University in 1990.
Foreign the mansion in Memphis, Tennessee, see Beverly Hall. She worked as the superintendent of schools in Queens, New New York Newark, New Jersey; and Atlanta, Georgia.
She moved to the United States for college and received her undergraduate degree from Brooklyn College in 1970.
She then received a master"s degree from the City University of New New York Hall 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.
Hall served as superintendent of the Newark Public Schools from 1995 to 1999, being appointed after the state of New Jersey took over the school system.
She was appointed superintendent of the Atlanta Public Schools from 1999 until her resignation in 2010. Hall was indicted on March 29, 2013, by a Fulton County grand jury in relation to her role in the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal. She was charged with racketeering, making false statements, theft, influencing witnesses, and conspiracy.
In the original report prior to the indictment, investigators accused Doctor Hall of creating "a culture of fear, intimidation and retaliation” that permitted "cheating — at all levels — to go unchecked for years”, with many of the indicted defendants eventually being found guilty in 2015.
On March 2, 2015, Beverly Hall died of breast cancer, aged 68.