86% of teachers in the Atlanta cheating scandal were at schools led by cheating principals
Written by Erich Martel. Read the entire article here.
“The 800-page Investigation Report on the Atlanta Public Schools (APS) cheating scandal involving 178 named school-based principals, teachers and other staff is a riveting and chilling anthology …
In 44 of the 56 schools, the principal was held responsible. …
In fact, 90 (86%) of the 107 teachers named in the Report (table, last page) were in schools where the principal was also named. The Report documents that some teachers did report cheating as well as the pressure to cheat. While the oversight bodies capable of intervening were asleep or in thrall to their celebrity superintendent, teachers who took the risk to perform their civic responsibilities were ignored as principals and assistant superintendents responded with threats and termination:
‘Throughout this investigation numerous teachers told us they raised concerns about cheating and other misconduct to their principal or SRT Exec Director (Assistant Superintendent) only to end up disciplined or terminated.’“