Obama and Duncan Are More Responsible Than This Crooked Administrator

Thanks to NCLB and RTTT, with their demonizing of public education and teach-to-the-test requirements, superintendents like this one felt forced to cheat in order to make himself and his district look good and not failing.

However, he is the one facing a stiff prison term, not those two fake Democrats who helped create the mess in public education with their stupid "reforms":

A federal judge sentenced the former superintendent of El Paso Independent School District to more than three years in prison Friday for his participation in a conspiracy to improve the district’s high-stakes tests scores by removing low-performing students from classrooms.

Lorenzo Garcia’s scheme to prevent hundreds of sophomores from taking the accountability tests fooled authorities into believing that academic standards had improved in his West Texas district — resulting in a boost in federal funds and personal bonuses totaling at least $56,000.

Garcia pleaded guilty to two fraud counts in June; one in the testing scandal and another in which he misled the school board so that his lover would receive a $450,000 no-bid contract to produce school materials.

On Friday, federal judge David Briones sentenced him to 3½ years in prison on each fraud count, to be served at the same time. Garcia also was ordered to pay $180,000 in restitution and fined $56,500 — the amount he received as a bonus from the district for its success on test scores.