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Defense, prosecutors preview Atlanta school cheating cases
Atlanta Schools-Cheat Werm
Attorney Robert Rubin, defending former Atlanta Public Schools principal Dana Evans, gives his opening statement in a case against 12 former APS educators and administrators Monday in Fulton County Superior Court. - photo by Associated Press
ATLANTA — Prosecutors said Monday that 12 former Atlanta Public Schools educators and administrators cheated, lied and stole as part of a widespread but cleverly disguised conspiracy to inflate state test scores that affected thousands of students. Defense attorneys countered in their opening statements that their clients were committed educators but made enemies of former colleagues who are now lying about their involvement in cheating. A dozen former administrators, principals, testing coordinators and teachers face racketeering charges, more than a year after prosecutors indicted 35 staffers in a cheating scandal that shocked the nation's educators and parents.
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