Metro Schools’ Cheating Scandal Worsens

Metro Schools’ Cheating Scandal Worsens

A prominent Metro Schools principal has slammed an internal review of the district’s testing practices, calling it “inaccurate” and “misleading.”

Susan Kessler, principal of Hunters Lane High School, criticized the review for not reflecting the role of higher-ups in the decision to move failing students out of classes with End-of-Course exams.

Those EOC exams are used to judge the performance of the schools and the district.

“There … does not seem to be any shared responsibility with the Department of Leadership and Learning who encouraged schools to move failing students out of EOC courses,” Kessler wrote in a response to a draft version of the internal review.

The final report, released the next day after Kessler’s memo with no apparent changes, found no evidence of a district-wide effort to manipulate standardized test scores.

But it cited suspicious patterns — what it called “outliers” — at Hunters Lane.

It noted “an unusually high number” of (continue reading at NewsChannel5)

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