Raw Story: A for-profit school that was hyped by Republican lawmakers as a solution to Tennessee's education problems recently admitted deleting bad grades to "more accurately recognize students' current progress."
A December email obtained by WTVF showed that Tennessee Virtual Academy’s vice principal instructed middle school teachers to delete “failing grades” from October and September.
“After … looking at so many failing grades, we need to make some changes before the holidays,” the email says, adding that each teacher needed to “take out the October and September progress [reports]; delete it so that all that is showing is November progress.”
TNREPORT: "They lied to parents, they cheated kids and they stole from taxpayers," Johnson said. "Tennesseans deserve better than a big, out-of-state corporation cheating our children and taxpayers to line its own pockets, and it's time to fix this multi-million dollar mistake."
And there you have GOP education policy in a nutshell. Corrupt Republican businessmen bribe a corrupt Republican state legislature to steal 15 million taxpayer dollars that was supposed to go to public schools, but instead it goes to the corrupt Republican businessmen (the CEO paid himself 2.1 million last year) and the corrupt Republican state legislature in the form of campaign contributions. And all the while the kids are getting crap for education (which is fine with Republicans because the dumber the population the better they can run their scams).
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