Georgia officials will take control of 5 Atlanta schools involved in test cheating

Nov. 2, 2011
State says cheating enabled the schools to falsely claim academic successes

From The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Five Atlanta schools are being placed under state direction based on evidence of years of test cheating, officials say. Georgia education officials say the previous findings that Parks Middle, Dobbs Elementary, Harper-Archer Middle, Kennedy Middle and Gideons Elementary had met adequate yearly progress benchmarks were invalidated by cheating. State monitors will take control of these schools. Administrators at the schools will have to develop turnaround plans and channel some of their funding into tutoring and other services for students.

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