Another guilty plea in APS test-cheating case
A former assistant principal on Tuesday became the highest-ranking educator to plead guilty in the Atlanta Public Schools test-tampering case.
Gregory Reid became the fifth person charged in the Atlanta Public Schools test-cheating scandal to admit to criminal wrongdoing. Reid worked at Parks Middle School, which was found to have an extremely high number of flagged classrooms for high wrong-to-right erasures in 2009.
Reid pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of obstruction. Superior Court Judge Jerry Baxter sentenced Reid to two years on probation and ordered him to perform 500 hours of community service and return $5,000 in bonus money he received. Reid also received first offender treatment, meaning if he successfully completes the term of his probation his conviction will be erased.
Reid agreed to cooperate with prosecutors and testify in the trial scheduled for next spring.
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