Cheating awards?
Yes, it's obvious that Wilson and dozens of other D.C. schools were part of the pattern of systematic, widespread cheating that led to the district's reported test-score gains, which in turn were erroneously credited to Michelle Rhee's leadership. It was Rhee who took all the credit and built her reputation on the supposed test gains and who left town before the cheating scandal was uncovered. She bailed out, leaving principals like Warley holding the bag.
Oddly, Mathews never once mentions Rhee in his entire column, leading one to assume that Erasure-gate was simply a matter of 103 district schools each individually having their children erase incorrect answers and replace them with correct answers, with the blame falling entirely on principals like Warley and her faculty. Henderson,
