Secret Recording Exposes Teacher Pressure To Pass & Promote

[NathanBacaABC7]

I'm the reporter that aired this story Monday night on ABC7. It's from November 2015, when the then-principal of Roosevelt STAY High School, Eugenia Young (now at Eliot-Hine MS) meets with her teachers to discuss pressure she was getting from then-Chancellor Kaya Henderson to pass and promote students. The ideas the principal came up with were violations of DC student attendance law. We've heard teachers talking about this for months - this is the first time I've come across a recording where you hear the principal talking to teachers this way.

http://wjla.com/features/faking-the-grade/faking-the-grade-secret-recording-exposes-teacher-pressure-to-pass-and-promote-students

[Anonymous]

Yes. We've been discussing it since yesterday here.

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/702206.page