The Atlanta school district has cracked down on the grading practices that previously allowed principals and others to change students' final grades with little justification.
The changes come after The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Channel 2 Action News reported last year on numerous allegations of improper grade-changing, awarding students grades they didn't earn and other wrongdoing involving grades at Atlanta high schools.
This year, the number of changes to final grades dropped by nearly 80 percent, according to a district-provided tally of grade changes from the first half of this year.
Two schools that had commonly boosted students' grades due to "remediation assignments" — Douglass High School and South Atlanta School of Law and Social Justice — reported just 22 grade changes total in the first half of this year, down from 259 last year.
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