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EBR schools audit- 'troubling' discrepancies in district's academic record
Posted on 3/17/14 at 8:34 am
Posted on 3/17/14 at 8:34 am
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In one case, staff members were ordered to delete emails about a student’s records that were being audited, a draft summary of the audit released by the state on Sunday said.
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Last school year, at one school in the East Baton Rouge Parish School System, there were 29 students in the graduating class who had problems with their academic records.
As many as six students in the 2013 class of Glen Oaks High School should not have been allowed to graduate. Another 11 students were given the wrong type of diploma, potentially making them eligible for state scholarship money they otherwise wouldn’t have been eligible for. The other students’ records had inaccurate credits or grades recorded.
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In total, White said the department reviewed records for 362 students. A total of 25 percent of those records had “major errors,” the audit found.
The problems included students who were awarded credits in the state’s transcript system that were different from what was recorded by the school, as well as students who had different grades recorded in the state system. White said that in all of those cases, the grades were higher in the state system than they were at the district level.
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This post was edited on 3/17/14 at 8:38 am
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Posted on 3/17/14 at 8:36 am to dewster
I am willing to bet federal dollars coming into the school has to do with graduation rate.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 8:43 am to dewster
Certainly a black eye for the EBR School system, and coming at a time when SG area people are pushing to break out.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 9:01 am to dewster
Posted on 3/17/14 at 9:49 am to dewster
And the push for ISDs w/in EBRPSS gets a little assistance.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 11:08 am to dewster
I retook Algebra, English and an arts class at BRCC and I can vouch for the fact that a big majority of the students that went to EBR public school should not have gotten out of hight school. I had to peer review English papers for some of them and not one could pass for an acceptable High School essay much less a college one. It pissed me off. If like they just let them out of High School with a free pass.
Posted on 3/17/14 at 12:14 pm to dewster
If persons can be identified who participated in the changing of grades and if the intent was to defraud the state or feds out of our education tax dollars or to inflate graduation numbers for any reason, I hope that person or persons is/are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Even if illegal activity cannot be proven, I hope the persons involved are fired for incompetence.
For those who have read the book Freakonomics, that book has a chapter specifically on the economic incentives surrounding school administrative cheating on grades and certifications. It's sad that it happens and it is wrong. But, as the book points out, the financial reward for cheating is so great that many public school officials decide it's better to cheat than take the risk of losing their job.
The only solution is to fully backstop all opportunities at cheating, such as separating the testing/evaluating procedures from the persons who would benefit (or not be punished) from poor results.
That, of course, would take more money to staff independent "monitors" and that's the excuse given for not doing it.
Freakonomics is a good read. It provides a lot of insight, based on hard data and not just suppostions, as to why things happen in our society that are caused by economic incentives that we usually don't associate with economics.
Even if illegal activity cannot be proven, I hope the persons involved are fired for incompetence.
For those who have read the book Freakonomics, that book has a chapter specifically on the economic incentives surrounding school administrative cheating on grades and certifications. It's sad that it happens and it is wrong. But, as the book points out, the financial reward for cheating is so great that many public school officials decide it's better to cheat than take the risk of losing their job.
The only solution is to fully backstop all opportunities at cheating, such as separating the testing/evaluating procedures from the persons who would benefit (or not be punished) from poor results.
That, of course, would take more money to staff independent "monitors" and that's the excuse given for not doing it.
Freakonomics is a good read. It provides a lot of insight, based on hard data and not just suppostions, as to why things happen in our society that are caused by economic incentives that we usually don't associate with economics.
Posted on 3/18/14 at 4:20 am to dewster
People would be shocked if they knew how much tampering occurs with academic records - not just in EBR either.
Posted on 4/4/14 at 8:50 am to dewster
quote:How is this possible without willful negligence at best? This is either gross negligence or malfeasance. Either should be cause for termination for those responsible. Who will be held accountable?
But at McKinley Senior High School, of 46 student records inspected, 11 of them had credits and grades that didn’t match the state’s records, 30 were missing grade documentation, and 11 had no transcript folders.
I wonder what the school records look like for the remainder of the student body that were not inspected?
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