Any teacher and or administrator caught doing this should be immediately fired and lose their pension. Any school where this is widespread should be closed immediately with all the teachers and administrators fired.
I think they should be prosecuted for fraud too.
Absolutely. It is fraud. In fact, when reading about these stories, you see the classic 'fraud triangle.' Motivation/pressure, justification, opportunity. The pressure involved in the schools' funding and their own jobs provides the motivation. The fact that they can tell themselves that they are only doing it so that the increased or continued funding can help the students, and they'll quit as soon as the scores really do come up is the justification. The stupid idea of giving the teachers access to completed tests is the opportunity. There's not much a local system can do about the first two, since the federal government has provided the motivation and the lack of morals pervading today's society, particularly the left, where most 'educators' are, provides the justification. However, there is no excuse for the school system to provide these teachers with the opportunity. I mean, in Atlanta, they were taking them home and having parties where they changed the answers. Why in the world were they allowed to walk home with them? Ideally, a third party would administer the tests. However, the costs involved may not allow that, but other controls could be used, such as each student sealing his test after completion in a way that would prevent tampering.