Posted on 04/02/2015 8:54:01 AM PDT by Hojczyk
ATLANTA — In one of the biggest cheating scandals of its kind in the U.S., 11 former Atlanta public school educators were convicted Wednesday of racketeering for their role in a scheme to inflate students' scores on standardized exams.
The defendants, including teachers, a principal and other administrators, were accused of falsifying test results to collect bonuses or keep their jobs in the 50,000-student Atlanta school system. A 12th defendant, a teacher, was acquitted of all charges by the jury.
The racketeering charges carry up to 20 years in prison. Most of the defendants will be sentenced April 8.
"This is a huge story and absolutely the biggest development in American education law since forever," said University of Georgia law professor Ron Carlson. "It has to send a message to educators here and broadly across the nation. Playing with student test scores is very, very dangerous business."
A state investigation found that as far back as 2005, educators fed answers to students or erased and changed answers on tests after they were turned in. Evidence of cheating was found in 44 schools with nearly 180 educators involved, and teachers who tried to report it were threatened with retaliation.
Similar cheating scandals have erupted in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Nevada and other public school systems around the country in recent years, as officials link scores to school funding and staff bonuses and vow to close schools that perform poorly.
Thirty-five Atlanta educators in all were indicted in 2013 on charges including racketeering, making false statements and theft. Many pleaded guilty, and some testified at the trial.
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I saw that last night I found it delightful
The teachers can’t educate the kids in the 3 R’s, so they educate them in democrat tactics. The advanced course is in voter fraud.
Anyone have pictures of these felons?
I can't seem to find anything about it on Free Republic, and I know that SOMEHOW, you just have a handle on these things... LOL! :)
I guess scamming the system was a lot easier than educating the students. Lock ‘em up.
Because they were all black, the charges, trial and convictions are all racist. Even the cries of agreement from black parents of school children affected by this are racists. All just a bunch of m’effing racists. /s
They are all non-swimmers if that is what you are looking for.
Pictures are here.
Do you know the name of the test that they cheated on?
The link below shows a lot of “racist” photos of Holders, Obozo’s, Sharpton’s and Jackson’s very well dressed fellow bros and sistars.
http://www.11alive.com/story/news/local/2015/04/01/aps-cheating-trial-verdict/25018765/
Fortunately the DA is black in this case.
I was being sarcastic. I knew it was the case. So did the parents. Clear cut case of felonious acts by government bureaucrats that didn’t give one crap about the children.
However, that said, the nation media will eventually build its assessment of the gist of this as racism. Count on it. Likely after these felons are sentence next week, and we will be treated to media inspired “Save the Eleven” from the bounds of racism blather. Media needs to continue Ferguson, Indiana, and all the rest. It must have the fodder.
If they were “educators,” they wouldn’t have had to fudge the tests.
No one can face the reality of low intelligence and poor impulse control, therefore they must cheat.
Saw them posted at another site. As suspected, all Amish.
All they were doing is implementing “affirmative action”. They were only trying even the scores out from those with “white privilege”.
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