State Investigating Test Fraud, Inaccurate Data in Adult Ed Program
More details emerge in problems with Alexandria's adult education program.
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More details have emerged about the problems spotted by the state in Alexandria’s adult education program.
State officials have found that an “inexplicable” number of adult students all received the same score (578) on a test that the federal government requires of grant recipients. In one GED-preparation class, all 10 students received that score.
Additionally, another test that is offered in a one-on-one environment and lasts about 30 minutes “was supposedly taken by 95 students in a single day in July 2011,” Virginia Schools Insider reports. The situation was flagged because Alexandria has only one instructor certified to give the exam, making it virtually imopossible for that amount of students to have actually received the exam on one day.
Alexandria Superintendent Morton Sherman has been examining ways to overhaul the city's adult education program.
Chris R.
2:57 pm on Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Over-spending on consultants and programs with personal ties to the Superintendent- strike one.
Financial mismanagement of school CIP funds- strike two.
Testing irregularities within an ACPS program- strike three.
The Superintendent must be fired or resign. If the School Board will not face this reality then they must go as well. The hard work of Alexandria City Public Schools students, parents, and teachers has once again been overshadowed by administrative mismanagement.
Clint smith
3:12 pm on Wednesday, April 4, 2012
How many more restructures, administrative leaves and new personnel is it going to take before replace the one who needs to be replaced. Aren't the citizens of alexandria sick of Sherman's I didn't know just trust me attitude? His changes have helped very few and everything is becoming a big wadded mess. He and his staff are clueless when it comes to elementary education. He was hired to help fix the middle schools which he pretends he did by dumbing down the curriculum to one size fits
all. T.C. Is still a hornets nest. Adult education is now under fire and I'm not convinced that those are the only scores that should be looked at. What has he been doing? He clearly has no clue what is going on in ACPS so why keep him here. What a HUGH waste of our tax dollars. Shame on the School Board for being his lap dogs and shame on Alexandria City for allowing this sham to continue!
Scott Gordon
2:22 pm on Thursday, April 5, 2012
It's time for the City's residents and Government to demand action, to stop writing about the mismanagement and end it, now. I applaud Councilman Donley for implying Sherman should resign but talk is cheap; Mort Sherman and any of his lackeys must go. Our children's futures and the further education of our City's adults depends on it. What has to happen before Mort Sherman is dragged from his desk and placed in an unemployment line? We need to stand up, speak out, and force the issue.
Scott Gordon
3:29 pm on Thursday, April 5, 2012
https://www.change.org/petitions/alexandria-city-public-schools-and-the-city-government-remove-acps-superintendent-mort-sherman-from-office
Gail G
3:37 pm on Thursday, April 5, 2012
I signed the petition. Good Lord, what else has to happen before the school board fired that man?