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Interview: Rhee-placemt claims ATL kid’s scores went up despite the cheating proves that they were learning

Rhee’s replacement, Kaya Henderson, states that no federal or DC investigator has contacted her about the suspicious scores. In the below Q & A, she tells Turque that the scores in Atlanta went up despite the cheating, because it showed that the ATL kids were learning.
Written by Bill Turque for the Washington Post. Read the entire article here.
Bill Turque: The thing that concerns people is that there’s no player in this process who really has an incentive to get to the truth.
KHenderson, Rhee’s fmr asst and replacement: Why is it not in my best interest? Why do I not want to know the truth? Because if you’re cheating, you either have to keep cheating or you have to get good really fast. And kids