From Daily Kos. Another Day more cheating scandals from another high performing school. This time in Los Angeles. Who could have figured it would come to this?

Fri Sep 02, 2011 at 12:00 PM PDT

Cheating scandals spreading to LA-area charter schools+*

by Steve SingiserFollow for Daily Kos Labor

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In this year of pervasive teacher-bashing and general assaults on public education, two things have generally been hailed by "reform" advocates as the cure for all schooling ills: charter schools and basing just about everything on "performance," a term defined (of course) solely by high-stakes testing. In southern California this week, where statewide test results for the 2010-2011 school year were released, charter schools and high-stakes testing came together to create a story which underscored exactly how neither of these "reform" planks are necessarily a silver bullet for education

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