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School Scandals, Children Left Behind: Cheating in Texas Schools
This series of articles began with an examination of one school district in Dallas. The reporters found that the Wilmer-Hutchins Independent School District was riddled with problems, including shredded documents, vanishing funds, unpaid salaries, and stolen property. The Wilmer- Hutchins stories also exposed some discrepancies in state assessment test scores. The reporters did a statewide data analysis of test scores and found that similar discrepancies, and the cheating that produces them, occurred throughout the state.
Tags: cheating; Wilmer-Hutchins; Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills; Thaddeus Lott; Texas Education Agency; standardized tests; No Child Left Behind