Posted on 10/30/2024 7:50:14 PM PDT by blueplum
Five people have been charged in Texas with organizing and participating in an illegal cheating scheme that certified more than 200 unqualified teachers and helped the plot’s “kingpin” rake in more than $1 million, prosecutors said.
In the scheme, people would typically pay $2,500 to have proxies take certification tests for them at two testing centers in Houston. The scandal involved bribing a testing proctor to allow test applicants and their proxies to switch places...
Investigators noticed a pattern, they said: Numerous teacher certification candidates who previously failed certification exams would drive from faraway Texas cities to the Houston area to take exams.
“Suddenly, they were passing the test with flying colors,” Mike Levine, a felony chief in the DA’s Public Corruption Division, told reporters.
Then a tip came in ...
...Nicholas Newton, the proxy tester, would sit in their seat, take and pass the test that they felt they could not,” Levine said. Newton is an assistant principal at Booker T. Washington High School, according to the DA's office....
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
"Vincent Grayson, 57; Tywana Gilford Mason, 51; Nicholas Newton, 35; Darian Nikole Wilhite, 22; and LaShonda Roberts, 39, have been have been charged with two felony counts apiece of engaging in organized criminal activity."
I guess the diplomas we taxpayers paid for didn’t fool anybody. Especially my man Ken Paxton.
The rest of the unqualified teachers in the country took the test! :)
Surprise, surprise, surprise....following the footsteps with regards to MLK,Jr. example in academia.
How odd.
Sounds like them, Yogi.
Helps explain why kids aren’t learning crap and why simple morality in our schools seems absent.
What do you want to bet that the test is something that an above-average high school student could pass?
If you flunk the teacher test, you dumb.
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I wonder who took the ethics part of the exam.
Amazingly the NY school system finally dropped requirements for teachers to take literacy tests after so many of them failed that it caused a shortage of teachers.
And with large numbers of school students all over the country cheating and buying essays or paying someone to take exams, now they can’t even feel guilty as their own teachers were cheating before they got to the classes.
“I’ve got nothing, ma, to live up to.”
—It’s Alright Ma, I’m Only Bleeding.
These are black HS teachers caught cheating. What do you expect.? Even educated blacks read and do arithmetic at the level of 5th graders.
Without affirmative action none of these teachers would have become teachers.
These arrests are disparate to the population mix. Should arrest more white people regardless if they are guilty or not to balance the racial mix.
To do otherwise is racist.
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