Board affirms schools investigation
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Atlanta school board voted Monday to affirm "a transparent and independent investigation" of more than two-thirds of the city's public elementary and middle schools for possible cheating on state tests.
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The resolution finalized the board's approach after the state flagged 58 Atlanta schools among 191 statewide needing scrutiny. The board's chairwoman, LaChandra Butler Burks, is also on a community oversight panel announced last week.
The panel is expected by the end of this week to hire a firm to conduct the investigation, which is due back to the state by May 14. The panel's meetings, originally expected to be closed, will instead be open to the public, according to both the board and the panel's chairman, Gary Price, a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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