Cheating scandal: Feds say teachers hired stand-in to take their certification tests

AP ^ | 11/25/2012 | Adrian Sainz

[Calamari]

It was a brazen and surprisingly long-lived scheme, authorities said, to help aspiring public school teachers cheat on the tests they must pass to prove they are qualified to lead their classrooms.

For 15 years, teachers in three Southern states paid Clarence Mumford Sr. — himself a longtime educator — to send someone else to take the tests in their place, authorities said. Each time, Mumford received a fee of between $1,500 and $3,000 to send one of his test ringers with fake identification to the Praxis exam. In return, his customers got a passing grade and began their careers as cheaters, according to federal prosecutors in Memphis.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

I think they should go to a more online based model. Do the course work online and go to the campus for testing. If you are interested in learning the material you could do that free online but any certification you have to physically go to the campus and get tested and pay for that.

[Calamari]

Social Security and mail fraud.

[OldEagle]

Probably interstate??

[Peter W. Kessler]

I took a Praxis exam several years ago to qualify as a substitute teacher.

I scored 192/200.

It’s not a particularly difficult test.

The idiots in the classroom are the teachers; teaching their pupils to be idiots. Or Socialists. Same thing.

[MacMattico]

That's the thing Caveat, there are some excellent public school teachers out there, but they don't take a stand against the failing school they may be working in or the terrible teacher they know is right next door. They stay in line with their union and defend the bad teachers convinced if they don't they're out of a job. Some of the worst teachers are your union agitators and fighters to uphold tenure rules (designed to protect free speech in college class rooms NOT poor teachers). When I went with my daughter to fill out her Freshman schedule, the Guidance Counselor pulled it up on her computer and knowing that I had a HS teaching background scanned the teachers names my daughter had gotten. Then under her breathe said “ok, got the good ones”.

[bjorn14]

Yep, that’s exactly what I tell libs when they say what’s wrong with Obamacare? and I say two words “VA Hospitals” and somehow they get it.

[windcliff]

He probably hasn’t filed for taxes in years.