Report due Monday on testing violations at Atlanta Public Schools | ajc.comThe question here is not "what happened" -- I doubt there's a single employee at any of the affected schools who doesn't know exactly what happened and "who done it" -- but what, exactly, will the report SAY.
Almost five months to the day it started, an oft-delayed investigation of Atlanta Public Schools ends Monday with the release of a report expected to detail testing violations by as many as 100 educators.
With the report, an independent panel formed to investigate irregularities on state standardized tests at city schools has promised to draw a clear picture of what happened and how, from the inadvertent breaking of test security rules to the changing of students' scores. According to discussions and interviews over the past several months, they will:
- Name schools, including where scores may have been falsified.
- Make recommendations to halt problems and move forward.
- Identify individuals -- although, for legal reasons, not likely make them public -- who violated policy or ethics.
Testing violations may result in state sanctions ranging from a reprimand to a loss of teaching license.
As always, props to reporter Kristina Torres and the AJC for keeping this story alive.
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