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femmocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-14-11 09:16 AM
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More on the PSSA "cheating" scandal. Districts report that they never saw the results!
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Report on PSSA Test Results Unseen

By Jodi Weigand
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Thursday, July 14, 2011

The state spent about $183,000 in taxpayer money on a report that revealed possible cheating on a standardized test, but it never made it to the Education secretary's desk.

Gerald Zahorchak, who led the Department of Education when the report analyzed 2009 test results, said on Wednesday that the report's existence was news to him.

"I verified that it never got to my desk with folks in the current hierarchy," said Zahorchak, now superintendent in the Allentown School District.


Read more: Report on PSSA test results unseen - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/regional/print_746648.html#ixzz1S5ZyJBGA
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This concurs with a report several days ago that the Philadelphia Public Schools claim that they never saw the results of the 2009 investigation either.

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