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[quote=Anonymous][quote=NathanBacaABC7][quote=Anonymous][quote=NathanBacaABC7]https://wjla.com/features/faking-the-grade/charter-employees-claim-grade-and-attendance-fixing

I'm the ABC7 reporter who aired this story Monday and talked to these former charter school employees about their accusations. These are not the only charter schools we heard allegations against. However, these two were the ones we had access to records or employees willing to speak at length about what they say happened there. If there are more employees who believe systemic grade and attendance fixing is happening at their charter school, the public charter school board says they want to hear from those employees - and of course, so do I.

If there are any questions DCUM folks have about this story, I can try to answer them here.  [/quote]

You cited the evidence/records you reviewed for Howard in the article. Did you have similar records for Somerset? [/quote]

I do not have records for Somerset. For that school, we relied on an interview with a teacher (portions of which we aired) and a counselor (which we did not air - but made identical claims). Attendance and grading records are the gold standard for these type of stories - and its what started the Ballou HS / DCPS chain of events. [/quote]

Ask current and former teachers to contact you. From being at professional events with such teachers, you get to hear all kinds of terrible stories of what is going on. Not sure that here is the best place to reach teachers, but maybe also WTU, many DCPS teachers are former Charter school teachers ...[/quote]

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