Former Atlanta school superintendent Beverly Hall probably would have been found guilty of racketeering and orchestrating a scheme to inflate student test scores if she had lived long enough to stand trial, according to two people who served on the jury in the test-cheating trial.
In an exclusive interview Thursday with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, George Little, who was foreman of the high-profile jury, and another juror, Raquel Sabogal said evidence showed Hall pressured educators to change students' test scores, creating an atmosphere that rewarded cheaters, punished whistleblowers and covered up wrongdoing.
“It was pretty clear to us” that there was organized cheating, said Little, adding that Hall had “no checks and balances on her.”
Sabogal echoed those comments: “She (Hall) knew everything that was going on.”
Hall did not stand trial because she was battling breast cancer. She died on March 2, six days after the last witness testified, and strongly denied wrongdoing "to her dying breath," said her lawyers.
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