D.C. to dig deeper on test score irregularities
By Jack Gillum, Marisol Bello and Scott Elliott, USA TODAY
"The integrity of test scores is perhaps more important to us than any other district because we use the test scores in important ways," says Interim Chancellor of D.C. schools Kaya Henderson. (Photo by By H. Darr Beiser, USA TODAY)
The acting head of Washington, D.C.’s public schools requested Tuesday that the district’s inspector general review investigations of eight schools that were flagged in 2009 for irregularities in their standardized tests.
Acting Chancellor Kaya Henderson requested the review after an investigation published by USA TODAY showed more than half of D.C. schools were cited since 2008 for having unusually high “erasure rates,” which signify wrong answers changed to right ones on tests.
“The integrity of test scores is perhaps more important to us than any other district because we use the test