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Posted: 8:34 a.m. Sunday, April 21, 2013

AJC EXCLUSIVE: CHEATING OUR CHILDREN

Business leaders pushed pro-APS report despite flaws

Business commission withheld doubts about integrity of its own investigation; independence of the commission among the concerns.

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By Bill Torpy

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

In July 2011, a governor’s task force released a blockbuster investigative report that found widespread cheating in Atlanta Public Schools. In the findings, the authors criticized business leaders, including those at the Metro Atlanta Chamber, for a campaign to attack the “messengers” rather than find the truth because they were more concerned with protecting “the Atlanta brand.”

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