Overview: Atlanta Public Schools Cheating Scandal

Award-winning gains by Atlanta students were highly based on widespread cheating by 178 teachers and principals within the city of Atlanta.

Georgia Governor Nathan Deal,on a official report released from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation that names 178 teachers and principals – 82 of whom confessed – in what's likely the biggest cheating scandal in US history.

Unfortunately this appears to be the largest of dozens of major cheating scandals, across the country. The allegations of this rampant problem for US education, which has routinely developed an ever-increasing dependence on standardized testing.

The report on the Atlanta Public Schools, indicates a "widespread" conspiracy by teachers, principals and administrators to fix answers on the standardized testing system know as the Criterion-Referenced Competency Test (CRCT).The penalties of in subornation centered on punish whistle-blowers, and hide improprieties.