Newspaper finds evidence of cheating by Texas schools

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http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/12/20/texas.school.cheating.ap/index.html

DALLAS, Texas (AP) -- Dozens of Texas schools appear to have cheated on the state's redesigned academic achievement test, casting doubt on whether the accountability system can reliably measure how schools are performing, a newspaper found.

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Texas education policies on student accountability became the model for the federal No Child Left Behind law enacted after President Bush's election in 2000.

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It found, for example, that the fourth-graders at Sanderson Elementary School in the Houston Independent School District scored extremely poorly on the math TAKS test this year, rating the school in the bottom 2 percent of the state. However, the school's fifth-graders ended up with the highest scale scores on the math TAKS of any school in Texas, with more than 90 percent of the students getting perfect or near-perfect scores.

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[West Coast Democrat]

1. But, Texans Never Cheat...

that's unthinkable!

[Bozita]

2. A Texas solution to "No Child Left Behind"

[Moderator]

3. Duplicate

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