DCPS asks inspectors to review cheating charges

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Acting D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson asked the city’s inspector general Tuesday to investigate potential cheating in eight schools on the city’s standardized reading and math exams. But Henderson maintained that the probe into schools — where performance jumped alongside unusual erasure patterns on the exams — is being commissioned only to underscore that no cheating took place and the results of former Chancellor Michelle Rhee’s reforms are real.

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