About the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal

In 2008, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution broke the first of what would be several stories highlighting suspect test scores in Atlanta Public Schools and other Georgia districts. In the years that followed, the newspaper continued to dig, eventually exposing widespread cheating in the 50,000-student APS district. Read highlights from that coverage here.

The reporting led the paper in 2012 to take on an unprecedented data investigation, which found high concentrations of suspect math or reading scores in 69,000 public school systems from coast to coast. Since the 2012 "Cheating Our Children" series, the newspaper has continued to report on the Atlanta case and test integrity nationwide. Read that series here.

The APS trial, which began Aug. 11, 2014, is the latest chapter in that coverage.

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