A year ago, 11 former Atlanta teachers and school administrators were sentenced to prison, home confinement or jail after a historic test-cheating trial, yet many are now eligible to resume their careers.

Some licenses were revoked, but others were only suspended, and the suspensions are finished. Though many of the criminal sentences have yet to be served, Georgia schools could hire them.

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