The "hammer" has fallen on administrators in the middle of St. Louis's test cheating scandal:
The superintendent of East St. Louis schools must answer tough questions about his district's test scores. Dr. Nate Anderson is meeting with the state superintendent of schools Monday night, to explain why dozens of special education students at several schools didn't take state achievement tests.
Six school employees were demoted Friday over the testing controversy after an emergency meeting of the East St. Louis School Board ended Friday night with word of punishments for a test score scandal.
Among the issues of concern, the breaking of standardized testing rules regarding special education students. The testing mixup involves just over 50 special needs children attending one middle school and three elementary schools who were not given standardized tests as by law.
Those demoted were the principals of the schools in which testing "mixups" were identified, and two administrators of special needs programs.
Posted by kswygert at December 9, 2003 11:39 AM