APS to address student intervention needs

Atlanta Public Schools officials plan to talk today about how the district will address the needs of students affected by cheating.

A state investigation released last month named about 180 educators, as participants in cheating, including erasing and correcting mistakes on students' answer sheets to standardized tests. More than 80 APS employees confessed. Investigators said they uncovered evidence of cheating in 44 of 56 schools they examined.

The district has not released an estimate of how many students were affected by cheating. But Superintendent Erroll Davis has said in the past that he would like to see all students reassessed so the district can get an accurate measure of each student's ability.