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100 Atlanta school employees implicated in test cheating scandal  

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An investigation of suspected cheating at Atlanta Public Schools has concluded that as many as 100 employees at 12 schools violated testing protocols, the chairman of a special investigative committee told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Thursday.

An independent panel has spent three months investigating suspected cheating on standardized tests in Atlanta Public Schools. More than 260 city school employees were interviewed.

AJC file photo An independent panel has spent three months investigating suspected cheating on standardized tests in Atlanta Public Schools. More than 260 city school employees were interviewed.

Gary Price, chairman of the independent panel that was formed to investigate irregularities on state standardized tests at city schools, did not detail the violations, which could range from inadvertently violating test security rules to outright cheating. Price’s committee will release the key findings and recommendations from its exhaustive three-month inquiry on Tuesday.

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