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DOE Report Says Stuyvesant High Officials Didn't Stop, Investigate Or Report Student Cheating
By: Lindsey Christ
The Department of Education released a long-awaited report on a cheating scandal at one of the city's top high schools on Friday afternoon a report that said that the school's officials didn't stop, investigate or report student cheating. NY1's Lindsey Christ filed the following report.
When the principal and senior administrators at Stuyvesant High School learned last year that 50 or more students were about to cheat on standardized tests, they decided to allow the cheating to happen in a ill-conceived attempt to catch the students in action.
Their sloppy sting operation and incomplete, botched investigation likely allowed more cheating to occur and would have allowed many of the cheaters to get away with it. At least, that's what Department of Education investigators determined in a report they completed 10 months ago but only released Friday afternoon.
Investigators wrote that the principal, "Mr. Teitel showed an extreme lack of judgment when he orchestrated a plan designed, not to address or thwart this cheating, but to create circumstances under which it could continue."
Read more at http://www.ny1.com/content/news/188034/doe-report-says-stuyvesant-high-officials-didn-t-stop--investigate-or-report-student-cheating