It wouldn't surprise me there is cheating all over the place, not just in Georgia. Hell, I was approached by a principal when I taught life skills at Washoe County School District to cheat by illegally putting my kids on alternate testing so they wouldn't pull down the schoolwide test scores. I refused, and of course my career went to shit eventually.
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If any teacher, any principal, any administrator cheated, no one will have to ask me to take care of it. I will take care of it. That person will not and should not work for APS or any other system,” she said.
Hall plans to meet with her principals when she returns from a conference in Arizona and a weekend meeting with the Gates Foundation and remind them to continue leading their schools and focusing on achievement. “This is America. You are still innocent until proven guilty, I think,” she said. [Blogger's note: Unless, of course, you are a teacher. Then it's the other way around.]
As the AJC reported today, one in five Georgia public schools faces accusations of tampering with student answers on last spring’s state standardized tests, officials said Wednesday, throwing the state’s main academic measure into turmoil. The state’s report singled out 69 percent of APS elementary and middle schools — far more than any other district — as needing formal probes into possible tampering.
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