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School Cheating Report Still Not Public – Updated

dcogcadmin | September 8, 2009

The Washington Post’s Bill Turque followed up on his earlier story regarding the probe of cheating in some D.C. schools on standardized tests in 2007 (covered in the DC OGC blog here); in that piece, he had noted that the report commissioned by the city would be released on Friday, September 4th.  In the follow-up article that appeared Monday, September 6th, Turque notes:

The Washington Post’s Bill Turque followed up on his earlier story regarding the probe of cheating in some D.C. schools on standardized tests in 2007 (covered in the DC OGC blog here); in that piece, he had noted that the report commissioned by the city would be released on Friday, September 4th.  In the follow-up article that appeared Monday, September 6th, Turque notes:

"On Friday, The Washington Post obtained documents related to the investigation through the Freedom of Information Act. But despite repeated requests for a full copy of the study, District officials released only summaries and correspondence describing the analysis."

The story goes on to describe the suspicious patterns of erasures on the standardized tests that spurred the investigation, and notes that requests for follow up investigations at many of the individual schools went unanswered.

In an update on the story posted on the D.C. Wire blog on Wednesday,  Turque describes the response from the office of Attorney General Peter Nickles to the claim that the report was not provided.  Nickles wrote that all responsive documents were disclosed, and that any additional report was provided orally, through conversations between school officials and the investigators.