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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I saw the documentary and I miss the ol'girl at the helm of DCPS.[/quote]

I'm curious how you reconcile that with the culture of cheating and deception?[/quote]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dc-schools-pass-yet-another-test/2013/01/11/93af43d6-5b45-11e2-88d0-c4cf65c3ad15_story.html

Maybe because there wasn't one.   [/quote]

The editorial says that there is no evidence of widespread cheating. However, there hasn't been an investigation into widespread cheating. Check out Jay Mathew's on this topic:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/class-struggle/post/time-for-michelle-rhee-to-probe-test-tampering/2013/01/13/c4681ec8-5d4b-11e2-9fa9-5fbdc9530eb9_blog.html

He describes what has occurred as:

"A series of superficial investigations, the parameters controlled by D.C. school brass, that never called on the expertise of psychometricians, never dug into the data, and lacked any reasonable explanations of how such erasures could have been made by anyone but adults."

Mathews has traditionally been supportive of Rhee and even this article is full of praise for her. The Post editorial board has been in Rhee's pocket from the very beginning when the paper was given exclusive access to her even before the Council was told of her selection to be Chancellor. Post editors simply have no credibility where Rhee is concerned.

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