I've become weary of the mess that's going on in Washington and on the campaign trail. I just want Obama to stand tough and, for once, make the Republicans back down on the debt ceiling and budget issues.
And the farce of the campaign for GOP nomination is a circus that seems to have little to do with a serious person being chosen to be President of the United States.
My attention today is more on the mess in the Atlanta Public Schools, and later I will be writing about the investigative report released today concerning the cheating on standardized tests.
Cheating, mind you, not by students, but by teachers and superintendents who were under so much pressure from above to show improvement in test scores that they resorted to changing answers on the students' test scoring sheets -- on a massive scale.
APS Superintendent Beverly Hall received the National Superintendent of the Year Award in 2009 that was based largely on the unprecedented "improvement" in test scores -- which now turn out to have been doctored and invalid.
It may be the biggest local scandal of the decade.
More later.
Ralph
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