The principal who led Noyes Education Campus when its standardized tests were marked by a suspiciously high number of erasure marks has resigned.

Wayne Ryan, who was promoted to an instructional superintendent position with D.C. Public Schools, did not say why he was stepping down in a letter to colleagues on Friday, The Washington Post reports.

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