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GBI begins interviewing Atlanta teachers in cheating investigation, no word on Dougherty Co.
Posted: 10.18.2010 at 3:59 PM
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Less than a week after Gov. Sonny Perdue signed an executive order directing the GBI to join the probe, 50 agents gathered at a hotel south of Atlanta for a briefing and their assignments

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ATLANTA -- Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents began questioning Atlanta public school teachers this week, part of an investigation into possible test tampering at the Atlanta and Dougherty County public schools systems, reported the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

GBI agents said that teachers are not targets for criminal charges as long as they are truthful with agents. Less than a week after Gov. Perdue signed an executive order directing the GBI to join the probe, 50 agents gathered at a hotel south of Atlanta for a briefing and their assignments in the CRCT cheating probe.

Former Attorney General Michael Bowers and former DeKalb County District Attorney Bob Wilson led the briefing, laying out for agents what they had learned since Perdue assigned them to look into possible test tampering at the Atlanta and Dougherty County public schools systems.

Read more about the CRCT investigation at the the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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