Former El Paso Independent School District Superintendent Lorenzo Garcia (Times file photo)


Former El Paso Independent School District Superintendent Lorenzo García is expected to be sentenced today in federal court for his participation in a cheating scheme that is still the object of an FBI investigation.
García is to be sentenced on two counts of conspiracy to commit mail fraud by Senior U.S. District Judge David Briones at 11 a.m.
One charge stems from García directing six unindicted co-conspirators and others to fraudulently inflate student test scores so struggling schools would appear to meet federal accountability standards, which are based on 10th-grade state standardized exams.
The scheme involved school district employees changing grades from passing to failing to keep some students in ninth grade,