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.
“I am looking forward to the opportunity to pursue new options and old interests,” wrote Ryan, thanking Acting Chancellor Kaya Henderson for “many years of support, encouragement and friendship.”
Noyes featured prominently in a USA Today investigation into wrong-to-right erasure marks on the D.C. Comprehensive Assessment System. On the 2009 reading exam, one seventh-grade Noyes classroom averaged 12.7 erased and corrected answers per test; the district-wide average was less than one.
