Dive Summary:
- Wagner Middle School, which has been under investigation for charges of adult cheating over the past few years, was accused in March 2012 of violations from "sloppy practices to serious infractions" by Daniel Piotrowski, the Philadelphia public school district's former executive director of accountability and assessment.
- After the charges, Piotrowski was withdrawn from monitoring Wagner while district officials dismissed his account of events without a formal review and rejected his call for a full investigation.
- Piotrowski was fired in July while the violations at Wagner were not filed until October 2012.
From the article:
"... On March 13, the second day of testing at Wagner, the head of the school district's test security program reported more than a dozen testing violations at the school.
Among the infractions that Daniel Piotrowski said he witnessed was a teacher coaching students on how to answer test questions. ..."
