Trial Opens in Atlanta School Cheating Scandal
Fani Willis, an assistant district attorney, argued that atlanta teachers had illegally boosted test scores. CreditPool photo by Kent D. Johnson
The NY Times is reporting:
ATLANTA — The predicted three month long criminal trial of a dozen atlanta public school educators opened here Monday with prosecutors alleging that the teachers and administrators had engaged in a “widespread, cleverly disguised” conspiracy to cheat on standardized test scores in an effort to protect their jobs and win favor and bonuses from administrators.
