article_snippet.sent: Seen here is Former Atlanta Public Schools school research team director Tamara Cotman .
article_snippet.sent: This is a huge story and absolutely the biggest development in American education law since forever,' said University of Georgia law professor Ron Carlson. '
article_snippet.sent: It has to send a message to educators here and broadly across the nation.
article_snippet.sent: Guilty: Former Atlanta Public Schools school research team director Michael Pitts, right.  
article_snippet.sent: source: AP, The New York Times .
article_snippet.sent: Former Atlanta Public Schools school research team director Sharon Davis Williams, left, as the verdict is read in the  trial, Wednesday, April 1, 2015, in Atlanta. 