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Schools chief: No cheating in Bulloch
Holloway is 'confident' testing results accurate
Lewis Holloway Web
Results released recently show all Bulloch County elementary schools performed well on the 2011 Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests Georgia uses to measure progress in state schools.Reading and math scores improved in the key third, fifth and eighth grade tests, and superintendent Lewis Holloway said the results are "100-percent reflective of the good efforts by our students, with no outside help."Further, Holloway said "I am more than confident, I am certain, cheating did not occur in our testing."Holloway was referring to the cheating on CRCT tests that state officials say was widespread in the Atlanta Public Schools System. A state report names 178 Atlanta teachers and principals, of which 82 confessed to cheating. Tens of thousands of children at 44 schools, most in the city's poorest neighborhoods, were allowed to advance to higher grades, even though they didn't know basic concepts."Clearly a climate of cheating was not only tolerated but it seems encouraged in the Atlanta system," Holloway said.
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