The head of the state's Senate education committee wants to create a law that would levy criminal charges against educators who change answers on standardized tests. Sen. Dan Weber is calling for the new law in response to an audit released last week by the state showing that someone altered answers on the fifth-grade Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests to improve scores at four elementary schools last summer. At one of the schools - Atherton Elementary in DeKalb County - the principal resigned and the assistant principal was reassigned late last week after officials discovered they tampered with the tests. The higher scores helped all four schools meet federal No Child Left Behind standards.
(Associated Press)
(Associated Press)
