Atlanta Public School’s interim superintendent Erroll Davis plans Thursday to present his plan for moving forward in the wake of a state investigation that found cheating at more than 40 schools. One problem he may need to address: the city could need an influx of teachers before the start of school.

Davis has vowed that educators who cheated will not be in front of children this fall. State investigators named nearly 180 teachers and principals involved in their report. In eight of the 44 schools involved in the scandal, only the principal was found to have cheated. But the rest of the schools could also need to replace teachers.

Tim Callahan of the Professional Association of Georgia Educators says that if reviews of the teachers’ cases bear out the investigators’ conclusions, some schools could need to replace much of their staffs.

"It could happen," Callahan says. "There could be a wholesale cleaning out of a lot of educators, based on the evidence, of course based on due process. We’ll have to see where the chips fall."

The state Professional Standards Commission is expected to begin reviewing the cases of teachers named in the report this fall. At worst, teachers risk losing their licenses.

Callahan says that he hopes the scandal does not dissuade teachers from teaching in the district.

"In the short term it might," he says. "But I would hope that in the mid and longer term there would be dedicated men and women who would want to come in and do the job the right way, work with the children to bring up the scores the right way."

Both Callahan’s group and the Georgia Association of Educators emphasized the need for teachers named in the report to go through due process with state officials. The GAE also said in a statement that the situation in Atlanta highlights the need for whistleblower protections for teachers around the state.