Modern School: Cheaters Prosper: Disgraced Crescendo CEO Wins $240,000 Settlement

Modern School: Cheaters Prosper: Disgraced Crescendo CEO Wins $240,000 Settlement:

Cheaters Prosper: Disgraced Crescendo CEO Wins $240,000 Settlement

by Michael Dunn

The Crescendo cheating scandal in Los Angeles is old news (see here, here, and here). All of Crescendo’s schools have since been closed, their teachers let go, and their 1,400 students forced to relocate as a result of the 2010 scandal in which teachers were given advance copies of the state standardized exams to help better prepare their students. However, two separate investigations have now blamed the organization’s founder and CEO, John Allen, for ordering his schools’ principals to implicate the teachers in the scam.

The Los Angeles Times quoted an anonymous former Crescendo administrator who said, "He