Atlanta Educators Fired for Cheating
Posted on October 15th, 2011 by Mary Lord
A Georgia state commission voted to revoke the licenses of eight Atlanta Public Schools teachers and three administrators, imposing the first sanctions in one of the nation’s largest test cheating scandals. The decision stems from a state investigation, released in July, that revealed high numbers of wrong-to-right erasures in nearly half of the district’s 100 schools dating as far back as 2001.
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Tags: accountability, Atlanta Public Schools, cheating, erasures, investigation, Public Policy, Testing
