Nine teachers at North Clayton Middle School are upset their names have turned up on a list of educators whose students had high numbers of erasure marks on the Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests, Channel 2 Action News reports.
The teachers at the College Park school, who declined to be identified, said they each had been informed by the new principal this year that their names had been placed on a list of teachers with an excessive or suspicious number of erasures on the 2009 CRCT test.
The teachers denied changing children’s test scores.
A Clayton County school official told teachers at a faculty meeting that the list resulted from an independent audit, and that names cannot be removed from the list, Channel 2 reports. But the official said there would be no career consequences.
Clayton schools spokesman Charles White told Channel 2 there would be no punitive consequences for any teacher as a result of the list.
White noted that North Clayton Middle improved from a high number of CRCT erasures in 2009 to a low number in 2010. He also said that systemwide, Clayton teachers now do not administer the CRCT to their own students.
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