article_snippet.sent: During a trial lasting nearly six months, prosecutors accused the defendants of erasing incorrect answers or instructing students to change students answers so the educators could secure promotions and cash bonuses in the 50,000-student Atlanta school system in 2009.
article_snippet.sent: the educators fed answers to students or erased and changed the answers on tests after the educators were turned in to secure promotions or up to $5,000 each in bonuses.
article_snippet.sent: On Monday during the sentencing, Baxter said any children who were promoted based on false test scores were the real victims, adding that can lead to students later dropping out of school because students cannot do the work, having been cheated out of the earlier education.
article_snippet.sent: breast cancer found at least 44 schools were guilty of cheating, dating back to 2005 .
article_snippet.sent: Educators fed answers to students or erased and changed answers on tests after Educators were turned in .
article_snippet.sent: One principal wore gloves as One principal erased and changed the answers .
article_snippet.sent: We have messed up education so much.
article_snippet.sent: Tests and grades do not make you educated,' Former U.S. Ambassador Andrew Young said on Monday, later adding, 'I think The 11 educators - teachers, a principal and other administrators - got caught in a trap.'
article_snippet.sent: Evidence of cheating was found in 44 schools, with nearly 180 educators involved, and investigators found teachers who tried to report Evidence of cheating faced retaliation.
article_snippet.sent: The cheating is believed to date back to 2001, when scores on statewide skills tests began to turn around in the 50,000-student school district.
article_snippet.sent: Between 2005 and 2009, test answers were altered and falsely certified, according to the 2013 indictment.
highlights_snippet.sent: Evidence of cheating was found in 44 schools across the Atlanta school system, with nearly 180 educators involved .
  