Putting a dramatic and fitting end to the prosecution of professional educators accused of repeatedly changing student test scores in the Atlanta school system, 10 defendants were handcuffed and taken from the courtroom to jail last week. Another, pregnant and on the verge of delivering a child, soon will join them there. Ultimately, they were treated like common thieves, convicted, among other things, of violating the state’s racketeering law.
Our Views: Cheaters fail again
Atlanta test scandal trial ended as it should: With cynical educators led off in handcuffs