Talk:Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal

Importance rating

Is this really considered to be of "mid-level" importance to both the entire history of the state of Georgia and the "schools" project? Really? I've changed to low. Perspective please. The Rambling Man (talk) 20:38, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

• Oftentimes I've felt that these ratings seem to be entirely arbitrary and completely puzzling. ProfessorTofty (talk) 16:28, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Who has actually been charged?

This article lists a bunch of teachers and their sentences, but the Atlanta Journal-Constitution article of July 26 2011 appears to implicate school principals (mentioned in the first sentence of this Wikipedia entry), area superintendents, deputy administrators, the human resource manager, and the general counsel for Atlanta Public Schools in this scandal. Given that this scandal appears to have been systemic in nature, one would assume that any identified 'ringleaders' of this cheating were also charged. Just referring from the AJC article from 2011 to this Wikipedia entry, I cannot see any names of these more senior people mentioned in this entry - is that some separate legal process that has yet to run its course?

In other words, can this article possibly be expanded to speak to the apparent broad corruption of the school system, rather than simply listing the foot-soldiers (convicted teachers), naming the now-deceased former superintendent (who according to the AJC kept very much out of the way of day-to-day activities, meaning that there must by definition have been some intermediary 'operations'), and thus implying 'case closed'? Is there a Wikipedian who knows the broader story and can fill in these gaps?

Finally, should that first sentence be implicating more than just teachers and principals? The AJC article goes far beyond the school level in naming suspected wrong-doing; is that omitted from Wikipedia for any specific reason? Ambiguosity (talk) 12:55, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

And then what happened?

The last sentence of the Trial section reads as follows:

"Nine of the 11 educators convicted of racketeering appealed. Two of those nine, Tamara Cotman Johnson and Angela Williamson, went directly to the appeals court, lost, and reported for prison in October 2018."

This does not say anything about the results of the appeals by the seven other educators.

I hope someone knowledgeable about this case can fill in the missing information — at least whatever may be known as of today.

unclear

for people outside the U.S.A. it is not really clear, what those tests are; what which people are supposed to do there and for what they are done — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:3030:619:D50:CE9B:76F3:FD77:F789 (talk) 09:04, 15 February 2024 (UTC)