By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-31 03:21:58 | Updated at 2024-10-31 21:36:53
18 hours ago
Over 200 unqualified Texas educators had someone else take their exam in cheating scandal
NBC news ^ | 30 Oct 2024 | Marlene Lenthang
Posted on 10/30/2024 7:50:14 PM PDT by blueplum
Five people have been charged in Texas with organizing and participating in an illegal cheating scheme that certified more than 200 unqualified teachers and helped the plot’s “kingpin” rake in more than $1 million, prosecutors said.
In the scheme, people would typically pay $2,500 to have proxies take certification tests for them at two testing centers in Houston. The scandal involved bribing a testing proctor to allow test applicants and their proxies to switch places...
Investigators noticed a pattern, they said: Numerous teacher certification candidates who previously failed certification exams would drive from faraway Texas cities to the Houston area to take exams.
“Suddenly, they were passing the test with flying colors,” Mike Levine, a felony chief in the DA’s Public Corruption Division, told reporters.
Then a tip came in ...
...Nicholas Newton, the proxy tester, would sit in their seat, take and pass the test that they felt they could not,” Levine said. Newton is an assistant principal at Booker T. Washington High School, according to the DA's office....
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: education; gilfordmason; houston; houstonisd; kimogg; nicholasnewton; scandals; superiorcourts; teachers; texas
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"Vincent Grayson, 57; Tywana Gilford Mason, 51; Nicholas Newton, 35; Darian Nikole Wilhite, 22; and LaShonda Roberts, 39, have been have been charged with two felony counts apiece of engaging in organized criminal activity."
1 posted on 10/30/2024 7:50:14 PM PDT by blueplum
To: blueplum
I guess the diplomas we taxpayers paid for didn’t fool anybody. Especially my man Ken Paxton.
2 posted on 10/30/2024 7:52:02 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The Walz/Harriz RAT platform: Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Hitler, Garbage, Garbage, Garbage, Garbage.)
To: blueplum
The rest of the unqualified teachers in the country took the test! :)
3 posted on 10/30/2024 7:57:45 PM PDT by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
To: blueplum
Surprise, surprise, surprise....following the footsteps with regards to MLK,Jr. example in academia.
4 posted on 10/30/2024 8:02:03 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
5 posted on 10/30/2024 8:02:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: blueplum
And everyone give a cheer for the DOE who found... this.... out.... (frantic off stage whispers) Oh, they didn't?
How odd.
6 posted on 10/30/2024 8:05:03 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
To: blueplum
To: blueplum
Helps explain why kids aren’t learning crap and why simple morality in our schools seems absent.
8 posted on 10/30/2024 8:09:49 PM PDT by GOPJ (Democrat fraud: They vote the people who don't show up to vote. Everything else is red herring...)
To: blueplum
What do you want to bet that the test is something that an above-average high school student could pass?
9 posted on 10/30/2024 8:12:00 PM PDT by DarrellZero
To: blueplum
If you flunk the teacher test, you dumb.
10 posted on 10/30/2024 8:17:39 PM PDT by bigbob
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