A former Atlanta Public Schools testing coordinator tried to win back her job Wednesday in the school system’s last cheating-related case.
Juanessa Booker, who was a testing coordinator at Scott Elementary in west Atlanta, has denied participating or knowing about cheating on the 2009 Criterion-Referenced Competency Test.
But Associate Superintendent Steve Smith testified Wednesday that Booker failed to prevent cheating at the school, which had a high number of wrong answers erased and corrected, according to a state investigation. Smith said the school system has lost confidence in her ability to do her job.
The hearing concluded Wednesday afternoon, and three retired educators didn’t immediately make a decision. They’ll return for deliberations in the coming days.
Booker was one of 185 educators named in the 2011 state cheating investigation. All but about two dozen of those implicated in the investigation have lost their jobs.
She isn’t among the 35 educators who were criminally charged.
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