Did state officials bury 2009 cheating report?
New state Secretary of Education Ronald Tomalis is “concerned” that a 2009 report flagged dozens of Pennsylvania schools for possible cheating – then languished for two years.
“Why the report wasn’t brought up in 2009, I don’t know,” said Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) spokesperson Tim Eller. “There’s no indication of what was done with that report two years ago.”
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Secretary Tomalis questions predecessors' inaction
One-third of District schools had pattern of suspicious erasures
The statewide study that looked for signs of cheating on the 2009 Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) exam flagged a total of 88 Philadelphia District schools and 11 Philadelphia charters for highly suspicious numbers of wrong answers that were erased and changed to the correct answer.
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State's 2009 analysis identified problems at 225 schools in Pa.
