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Article: Report: Teachers Helped Pupils Cheat
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- Article date:
- June 14, 2002
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EAST PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) _ Teachers helped students cheat on standardized
tests at a public school that has won national recognition for educating
poor and minority students, the San Jose Mercury News reported Friday.
Eleven former students at Costano School in East Palo Alto told the
newspaper that teachers either gave pupils answers or strongly hinted
at them. One former teacher acknowledged the practice. Another said
the administration encouraged it.
"This was the message: `You do whatever you need to do to get those
scores up,'" said former teacher Charles Salter.
Marthelia Hargrove, who has been principal since 1990, denied she
encouraged cheating.
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