Thursday, February 10, 2011

Illegal grade-fixing allegations swirl at Detroit Public Schools

The Detroit Free Press reports:
Science teacher Marjorie Pasqualle struggled in her classroom at Detroit's Durfee Elementary last year -- and so did her sixth- and seventh-grade students.

She endured taunts and threats, one student slapped her face and, in a chaotic atmosphere where students weren't learning, she turned in 94 D's and F's for June report cards, records show.

But documents also show that the bad grades Pasqualle gave to students were changed to C's on report cards and computerized student records -- and without her consent, she said.
Mail and wire fraud. RICO?