CRCT Cheating

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• Atlanta high schools broke rules to meet performance standards
  A learning disability made school hard for Chantel Cox. But she always stayed on grade level and looked forward to earning a high school diploma.
• Test-fraud detectives drawing 
scrutiny
  When Caveon Test Security began its statistical detective work in Atlanta, it promised swift, enlightening results.
• Major execs invested in Hall
  In February 2010, some of Atlanta’s top business leaders realized they had a problem. For a decade, they had aligned themselves with Beverly Hall ...
• State report depicts Parks Middle as example of problems in district
  Christopher Waller worked miracles. Or so Beverly Hall seemed willing to believe. As principal of Atlanta’s Parks Middle School, Waller awed his bosses with ...
• Investigation into APS cheating finds unethical behavior across every level
  The governor’s special investigation shows a school system in which unethical - and potentially illegal - behavior pierced every level of the bureaucracy, allowing district staff ...
• Investigation: Hall knew -- or should have known -- about cheating
  State investigators have uncovered a decade of systemic cheating in the Atlanta Public Schools and conclude that Superintendent Beverly Hall knew or should have known ...
• Beverly Hall's tenure: Praise, scandal
  The first time she met with Atlanta Public Schools principals, Beverly Hall told the principals in 1999, “I know how to swim with the sharks.”
• Ex-APS official: Hall ordered destruction of documents tied to cheating
  Superintendent Beverly Hall ordered the destruction of investigative documents that detailed “systematic” cheating on standardized tests in the Atlanta Public Schools, according to a former ...

• Ex-APS official: Hall ordered destruction of documents tied to cheating
  Superintendent Beverly Hall ordered the destruction of investigative documents that detailed “systematic” cheating on standardized tests in the Atlanta Public Schools, according to a former ...
• Atlanta superintendent acknowledges cheating
  A month before retiring as Atlanta’s schools superintendent, Beverly Hall finally acknowledged this week that educators cheated to help students pass state-mandated achievement tests.
• Private agency, public power
  A backlash is taking shape against the accreditation organization that downgraded Atlanta Public Schools’ status to probationary.
• Beverly Hall closely tracked CRCT results
  Beverly Hall could hardly contain her delight. The Atlanta school superintendent had just received her district’s scores on the 2009 Criterion-Referenced Competency Test, Georgia ...
• Cheating probe: Atlanta principal's demotion called retaliation
  Jimmye Hawkins probably couldn’t have taken charge of Atlanta’s Scott Elementary School under more awkward circumstances.
• Allegations hit Hall aide
  Official allegedly advised principals to refuse to cooperate in inquiry.
• Whistle-blowing teachers targeted
  His bosses had no trouble dismissing Ryan Abbott’s report of cheating on standardized tests in an Atlanta school.

2010

• APS suppressed scandal
  Documents recently obtained by the AJC reflect an urgent, behind-the-scenes attempt by Atlanta Public Schools officials to contain a scandal over standardized test cheating.
• ATL superintendent loses shine
  What she calls the “remarkable turnaround” of Atlanta schools turned Beverly Hall into an education megastar.
• Atlanta grad rate doesn't add up
  Thousands of high school students vanished from the rolls of Atlanta Public Schools in the past eight years, often with few hints to where they ...
• Atlanta schools cheating probe faces scrutiny
  The head of Atlanta Public Schools promised an impartial inquiry into reports of cheating on state achievement tests.
• CRCT failures rise at schools suspected of cheating
  State test scores at metro schools suspected of the most widespread cheating last year dropped markedly this year, falling further in Atlanta than in other ...
• Atlanta schools pressured to achieve higher test scores
  In a room in Atlanta’s East Lake Elementary, students’ testing stats are on display like baseball players’ batting averages.
• Suspicious test scores widespread in state
  One in five Georgia public schools faces accusations of tampering with student answers on last spring’s state standardized tests, officials said Wednesday, throwing the ...

2009

• Schools with suspicious scores get rewards
  Fourteen schools with suspicious state test scores will still pocket thousands of dollars of federal money as a reward for their performance, state records and ...
• Are drastic swings in CRCT scores valid?
  Editor's note: This is the original story the AJC wrote on suspected cheating at Georgia schools in October 2009: Statistically unlikely state test scores ...
• Atlanta
 schools
 soft on cheats?
  Keylina Clark was puzzled when her son told her shortly after taking state standardized tests last year that he knew he’d passed.
• Principals bear weight of test goals
  For school leaders, high personal stakes ride on test scores.
• Surge in CRCT results raises ‘big red flag’
  A miracle occurred at Atherton Elementary this summer, if its standardized math test scores are to be believed.