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Sat., July 16, 2011 9:14am
Atlanta Public Schools interim Superintendent Erroll Davis has sent letters home to all 178 employees implicated in the system's cheating scandal, informing them they can resign next week or face being fired.
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Sat., July 9, 2011 7:31am
The national spotlight on Atlanta’s school-cheating scandal has caused other school districts to take stock and begin taking action to prevent such widespread cheating in their schools. Testing leaders in districts around Georgia said that while the case for alarm in most of the state wasn’t as great, Atlanta’s crisis does provide an incentive for refining their own test security procedures and for re-training their employees.
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Wed., July 6, 2011 1:46pm
Dougherty County was dropped from the investigation because a Deal spokeswoman said the governor was satisfied with the district's investigation.
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Thu., February 10, 2011 11:16am
A state agency has found far fewer wrong answers erased and replaced on the CRCT from a year ago in a review of 2010 test results.
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Tue., December 7, 2010 6:59pm
Governor Perdue today answered a charge by a group of black Atlanta pastors that the State’s investigation into cheating on the CRCT is a "witch hunt" against black teachers. The clergy is protesting possible criminal charges against educators. Fulton County’s District Attorney, Paul Howard, said he will seek criminal prosecutions if warranted in the cheating allegations at some Atlanta public schools.
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Mon., October 18, 2010 4:45pm
About 50 GBI Agents started questioning teachers and administrators at Atlanta Public schools today. The probe is part of an ongoing state investigation of possible cheating on CRCT tests last year.
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Wed., August 18, 2010 3:12pm
Gov. Sonny Perdue is launching a special investigation into cheating allegations in two Georgia school districts. Perdue announced Wednesday that he is unhappy with what he called "woefully inadequate" internal probes by the Atlanta and Dougherty County school systems. The investigations followed a statewide review of all standardized tests taken by first- through eighth-graders in spring 2009 showing unusual numbers of erasures on tests.
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Tue., August 17, 2010 7:12am
Atlanta’s School Superintendant Beverly Hall wants to implement Ethics training for teachers and administrators to tackle cheating allegations brought on by a state review.
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Thu., April 29, 2010 1:59pm
State officials have begun looking at the results of school system investig
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Thu., February 11, 2010 5:18pm
School systems across the state are beginning to respond to evidence of pos
