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Did these teachers cheat? You read the transcript and decide. | Get Schooled

Did these teachers cheat? You read the transcript and decide. | Get Schooled:


Did these teachers cheat? You read the transcript and decide.

crcted.0920 (Medium)Atlanta Public Schools is still in the process of trying to fire teachers implicated in the test-cheating investigation, a task that becomes more difficult as the cases and circumstances become murkier.
APS went after the most egregious offenders first, those who confessed to copying test booklets and erasing student answers. Now, it is pursuing those educators who made admissions to the GBI of far less overt actions, such as strongly suggesting students recheck answers.
In these less blatant cases, the question becomes what defines cheating? The AJC obtained the tapes of the