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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I doubt it's about race, as Atlanta is a predominately black town with a black mayor, yes? Chances are, the police dept is predominately black, and the people I saw leading the charge against those educators are black.

Fortunately, the article doesn't suggest race was a factor either.

But, I have the following question: Wouldn't Beverly Hall be just as far removed from the actual cheating that took place in her schools as Rhee was? Wouldn't she be in her high-rise office on test day like Rhee? No one's suggested Hall was in the schools erasing and changing answers. Sure, her system received money for the high scores, but so did DC. So while she received whatever amount, I'm certain Rhee did as well. But because DC's cheating was swept under the rug, no one bothered to look into that.[/quote]

You are wrong.  The city is predominently black and the suburbs are predominently white.  The city is predominately democrats and the state is dominated by rebublicans.  When poor inner schools schools started outperforming rich suburban schools, the skepticism was howling in the white suburbs and with republicans.  In the city and democratics defended the scores and limited scope investigations that found no issues were made.  The white republican governor, not city officials, appointed 2 criminal prosecutors and gave them subpoena power and a budge for a long duration investigation.  Because of the no snitches atmosphere of the city schools, it took them years before a witness confessed and agreed to wear a wire.  I agree that the end result of finding out this was occurring was a good thing, but not saying race was involved is being naive.  If the same thing happened to a white school district, I'd doubt a republican governor would budget millions of dollars for an investigation.  If fact, he only agreed to do it once he decided he wasn't going to run for re-election.
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