3 ex-educators in cheating scandal to be resentenced

USA Today reports:

The judge who sentenced former Atlanta Public Schools educators to prison time in a cheating scandal, has scheduled a modification of sentence hearing for three defendants who received the stiffest sentences.

Earlier this month, Judge Jerry Baxter of Fulton County Superior Court sentenced Sharon Davis-Williams, Tamara Cotman and Michael Pitts to serve seven years in prison. Baxter said each was being sentenced to 20 years in prison, would be incarcerated for seven years with the balance served as probation. The sentence included 2,000 hours of community service and a $25,000 fine.

Pitts also was sentenced to five years, to run concurrently, on a charge of influencing a witness.

The sentences were more than double what prosecutors recommended.

On Tuesday, Baxter's case manager confirmed that the judge would resentence the trio on April 30. No further information was available.

These teachers should be banned from teaching: ever.