Nine Atlanta educators in test-cheating case are sentenced to prison

The Washington Post: A furious Atlanta judge had a message for the 10 public school teachers, principals and administrators who — after months of testimony — stood before him, convicted of participating in a widespread conspiracy to inflate students’ scores on state tests.

They had lost their jobs and their reputations. They had been handcuffed and hauled off to jail. But they hadn’t yet paid their debt for a crime he said cheated some of the city’s most vulnerable children by telling them that they were learning to read and do math when they were not.

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