D.C. testing season begins as cheating probe continues

Published April 16, 2012 4:00am ET



D.C. classrooms flagged for possible cheating on last year’s standardized tests will be under “intensive monitoring” as the 2012 D.C. Comprehensive Assessment System exams kick off Tuesday. Officials from the Office of the State Superintendent for Education, which oversees testing and regulates DC Public Schools and charter schools, will be at schools throughout the city. But the schools referred for further investigation last year will have multiple monitors, and the 71 specific classrooms under investigation will receive special attention from the extra sets of eyes, OSSE spokesman Marc Caposino said.

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