After being found guilty of the largest cheating scandal in the nation, 10 former Atlanta educators were sentenced Tuesday, some up to seven years in prison. Judge Jerry Baxter of Fulton County Superior Court sentenced the educators to less stringent prison terms than the 20 years previously expected, USA Today reports. The educators were accused of taking part in a cheating scandal by changing […]
Math teacher Damany Lewis became the first teacher to be fired in the Atlanta Public School standardized cheating scandal that embarrassed the state of Georgia and shined a bright light on the pressure educators are placed under by districts to raise test scores, reports the Atlanta Journal Constitution. SEE ALSO: How Palin Destroyed U.S. Politics […]
