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Education blog The Notebook has uncovered an erasure scandal in Pennsylvania involving 89 different schools. Unlike the scandals unfolding in Atlanta, New Jersey and Washington DC, several charter schools are being investigated. The State of Pennsylvania is investigating and has released a 

What do you do with a vocational school where the principal and teachers are caught smoking meth and meth residue is found throughout the school? Close it down.

Bonus: Another teacher was arrested for making meth and purchasing sudafed for the purpose of making meth.

The New Jersey Department of Education has announced an investigation into standardized test results at 38 schools (list here). The issue is a high number of "erasures" where a wrong answer was changed to correct. Another smoking gun: some schools being investigated show a large jump in test sc

Stephen Pottinger, procurement manager at Houston ISD is in hot water. Was it the $100's of thousands of dollars in bus part inventory for buses that are no longer in services? Nope. How about the $800,000 in hand sanitizer purchased to fight bird flu that is sitting in district warehouses waiting to expire later this year? Not at all. So, what landed Potting

Late last year a story emerged that Atlanta Public Schools were embroiled in a standardized test cheating scandal when the teachers responible for blowing the whistle were fired by school administrators. What has emerged may be the largest cheating scandal since 

Syosset has 7,000 students and 10 schools in the district.  It pays superintendent Carole Hankin $542,000 per year in salary and benefits. Additional investigation by MyFoxNy.com revealed that an administrative assistant is being paid over $100,000 per year. Hankin's salary has drawn the ire of NY Governor Andrew Cuomo who called it an example of wasteful school spending.