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A judge has reduced the sentences of three former Atlanta Public School educators who received the longest sentences for their racketeering convictions in the mass cheating case. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jerry Baxter dropped the incarceration time from seven years in prison to three; and also reduced the number of years they have to […]

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ATLANTA (AP) — All but one of 10 former Atlanta public school educators convicted in a widespread conspiracy to inflate student scores on standardized tests were sentenced to jail time Tuesday, and the judge called the cheating scandal “the sickest thing that’s ever happened in this town.” Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jerry Baxter had […]