New Jersey Public School Test Score Fraud

Philadephia Inquirer reports:

Almost from his first day as principal at Charles Brimm Medical Arts High in Camden, Joseph Carruth found himself sounding an alarm over grade fixing and test-score rigging - allegations that have embroiled the district in scandal.

He and another administrator at the school discovered an alleged grade-fixing scheme within weeks of Carruth's arrival in July 2004, according to court documents. Twelve seniors at the school for high performers had apparently graduated with failing grades.

Six months later, Carruth has told state education and local prosecutors, an assistant superintendent pressured him to alter the 2005 state High School Proficiency Assessment after students finished it, giving him step-by-step instructions on how he was to cheat.

Carruth has said he refused to take part, according to sources familiar with the allegations. He even strapped on a wire for criminal investigators trying to implicate that district official.

Carruth declined repeated requests to comment for this article.

Yet court records and interviews with sources in law enforcement and education flesh out details of his accusations that he was pressured to cheat

Just think how long Enron could have lasted if they have those powerful public education bureaucrats on their side.