Claims that city teachers and administrators cheating on standardized tests triple
Monday, August 22nd 2011, 5:22 PM
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As the Bloomberg Administration increases the stakes on standardized tests, reports that teachers and administrators are cheating on exams has tripled, according to city data.Allegations of teachers and school administrators cheating have more than tripled since 2003, city data show.
As the Bloomberg administration has raised the stakes on standardized tests, the reports of test tampering and grade changing have increased to 225 last year from just 68 in 2003.
"There was a for a while a system of rewards with the bonuses -- and what could be considered punishment, judging the teacher (by the scores)," said Commissioner Richard Condon, noting the increase in the number of schools and the budget also helped account for the spike.
Condon's office took only 6 of last year's cheating cases, finding wrongdoing in two
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