In D.C., Michelle Rhee May Answer For Suspect Scores
Standardized test scores in Washington, D.C.'s public schools came under scrutiny last month when a USA Today investigation found evidence of cheating.
USA Today reviewed test scores from 2008 through 2010 and found an unusual rate of erasures on answer sheets from 103 schools in which wrong answers were consistently replaced with the right ones. In one seventh-grade classroom in Northeast D.C., USA Today found nearly 13 erasures per student on a 2009 reading test. The citywide average that year was no more than one erasure per student.
If an independent investigation finds that there was, in fact, widespread cheating, it could tarnish the reputation of former D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee, who based much of her success
