Scoundrel Time

Atlanta's former and disgraced superintendent actually has the nerve to talk to the New York Times about the biggest cheating school testing cheating scandal in the country's history--so far, at least.

Dr. Hall maintains that she never knowingly allowed cheating and does not condone it, but acknowledges that people under her did.

Still, the scope of the report — which she and others argue was overreaching and contained inaccuracies — shocks her.

“I can’t accept that there is a culture of cheating,” she said. “What these 178 are accused of is horrific, but we have over 3,000 teachers.”

The devastating report came in July. Two longtime government lawyers who were asked by the governor to investigate charges that answers had been changed on state standardized tests found that students had sometimes simply been given correct answers. In other cases, they said, staff members erased wrong ones and filled in the right ones. One school held weekend pizza parties to fix tests.

If you are at the top, you are SUPPOSED to know these things.  "Plausible denial" doesnt' work here.

The privatizers still intend on bribing and ruining the district.