Atlanta GA schools busted for cheating on CRCT tests

• Burroughs-Mollette Elementary in Glynn County
  
• Atherton Elementary in DeKalb County
  
• Parklane Elementary in Fulton County
  
• Deerwood Elementary in Atlanta

This past Thursday the Georgia Board of Education unanimously passed a recommendation to throw away 5th grade math test results from last year that were found to have been altered by teachers.

The reason : Kathleen Mathers, the executive director of the Governor's Office of Student Achievement, confirmed that there were far too many erasure marks on test answer sheets from all four schools. Oh, and when the students again tested in 6th grade they did far worse.

There haven't been too many charges against those that have admitted the scandal...yet. Buuuuut, these schools will most likely not make the Adequate Yearly Progress (each year, its fifth graders must do better on standardized tests than the previous years) and therefore they will not receive No Child Left Behind funding.

Ummmm, sounds to me like these schools have their own interpretation of No Child Left Behind!