Posted on 04/02/2015 10:37:30 AM PDT by Beave Meister
ATLANTA (AP) — A group of former Atlanta educators convicted in a test cheating scandal were locked up in jail Thursday as they await sentences that could send them to prison for years.
In one of the nation's largest cheating scandals of its kind, the 11 defendants were convicted Wednesday of racketeering for their roles in a scheme to inflate students' scores on standardized exams.
They include teachers, a principal and other administrators, who were accused of falsifying test results to collect bonuses or keep their jobs in the 50,000-student Atlanta public 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. The convicted former educators are set to be sentenced later this month.
"This is a huge story and absolutely the biggest development in American education law since forever," University of Georgia law professor Ron Carlson said. "It has to send a message to educators here and broadly across the nation. Playing with student test scores is very, very dangerous business."
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Obviously, racism.
:>)
Just sayin.......
I just wonder how pervasive this is throughout the public education system. Of course, the way to get around this is not to cheat but to make the tests and curriculum waaaaaaaaaaaaaay easier.
They will be pardoned by Obama and hired at the Department of Education.
The privilege gap strikes again.
BOOM!
nice, now go arrest Al Sharpton!
There were like 180 of these educators. They’re only sending 11 to prison?
There was an abundance of plea deals
Either that or actually TEACH! And TEACH CORE (not Common Core) SUBJECTS!
I took an online class a few years back and it was obvious that people were cheating. I complained to the prof and he said that the truth would come out when they got a job and were a failure.
All obama siblings. Where’s the protests?
Fortunately it was a state prosecution, so the president has no power to pardon them. :)
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