Atlanta Public Schools Cheating Scandal Could Cost Taxypayers $9 Million

Atlanta Journal Constitution:

Thousands of dollars to media consultants. Hundreds of thousands of dollars to lawyers. Millions of dollars to teachers and administrators who do no work and who, in fact, are suspected of doing harm. Taxpayers have already paid about $6 million for the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal, and they'll likely pay a lot more.

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Comments

[El Chingaso]

05:05 AM on 11/22/2011

Ban together...and sue these b*st*rds. If "cheating" cheated taxpayers out of this kind of money, let criminal charges roll, as well. And the kids from APS are dumb as a box of rocks.

[June25]

12:46 AM on 11/22/2011

6 to 700,000 dollare a month to pay bad teachers not to teach.I guess if you pay farmers not to farm why not teachers not to teach.This could be the new Obama job plan.

[Brian Omv]

08:01 PM on 11/21/2011

How about you stop expecting that a 1st grade child can do Math on a 5th grade level and Read on their own, then maybe it would not be unnecessary to cheat, they keep demanding more and more from those young kids and sooner or later they are going to fail, the past 5 years at least every time a student passed they have decided that now they can make the test harder next time, it wont work in the long run and it is the under paid teachers who get to deal with stress and accusations.

[22Keys]

04:41 PM on 11/21/2011

Very simple solution. Have outsiders administer and grade the exams. Problem solved.

[rondohatton2012]

02:48 PM on 11/21/2011

This is what happens when the Dems are in power for 50 years.

[hanspij]

11:44 AM on 11/21/2011

Easy way to cut those costs.
1 Faster investigations.
2 No lawer provided for the school.Why the school need 1? The school is never guilty, the ppl(teachers admin etc) are.
3 Guilty teachers/admin etc must pay all waiting salary and lawer costs himself back for 100% and also the extra costs for replacement teachers/staff etc.

And i gues there more ways to cut those costs and dont give it to the ppl from a town or state.
And dos an criminal also get payed leave? Dos the city also pay a drug dealer his profits loss during an investigation? So why teachers/admins etc have that ? Bc its white collar crime?
And stop prisons being comercial.Comercial means profit, so that means the state is paying to much and /or the prisoners ar not handeled in a proper way.What is also a big problem in the states.!!!!

[Brian Omv]

07:56 PM on 11/21/2011

1. Agreed
2. most of the time the union provide the lawyer not the school and teachers pay to me members.
3. HA with the salary teacher get that would render them bankrupt for the rest of their life, that is not reasonable sorry.

[hanspij]

08:20 PM on 11/21/2011

2 So union money isnt from the ppl?
3 Guilty=proven fraud. The person did it out of free will and knew what is the risk.Nobody forced him/her to do so.And why bankrupt?Lawyer so expencive? Replacement so expencive? Dont think so.And so what? Why an teacher on a special place and the thief not?Fraud is theft.And you think btw that such teacher get an other teaching job? You let the guy that stole money as worker from a bank also start working in a bank after its jail time?

[ashhhhley]

11:25 AM on 11/21/2011

Taxypayers??

[changing]

01:31 PM on 11/27/2011

Get rid of the testing that serves no purpose at all but making corporations rich. Then you won't have teachers and administrators cheating to keep their jobs and health insurance when they are terminated by arbitrary and capracious test results. Fire ole Arne and hire a real educator to lead the DOE and you can stop the carnage and expenses caused by NCLB and RITT.