Fairfax teachers committed 'testing irregularity'

Teachers at a Fairfax County elementary school made sure that students answered all the questions on their state standardized exams, a “testing irregularity” under scrutiny by the Virginia Department of Education.

Charles Pyle, a spokesman for the state education department, says there is no evidence that the four Fort Belvoir Elementary School teachers gave correct answers to 276 of their third, fourth and fifth grade students. However, they did require students to fill out their Standards of Learning testing booklets with answers before transferring them to the bubble-sheet, which is against state testing policy because it could lead to bubbling mistakes.