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If Only Tony Had Just Deleted His Own Emails

 
 
 
 
 
 
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Here’s a  follow-up story in the Miami Herald from Tom LoBianco, the investigative reporter who broke the Tony Bennett grade change scandal:
INDIANAPOLIS – In algebra, students are required to show the steps taken to come to their answer, in part because teachers need to see whether they grasp the concepts.
Indiana’s former state superintendent Tony Bennett hid his calculations when coming up with the school-grading formula last year, working backward to make the equation fit a predetermined answer: an “A” for Republican donor Christel DeHaan’s charter school. His staff was quietly asked to figure out the rest.
The only reason the grade-changing scandal was unveiled was because it