ATLANTA (AP) - Long after the school day ends, nearly half the students enrolled at Burgess-Peterson Academy in Atlanta spend an extra four hours in class looking to hone their math and reading skills by using such items as a deck of cards for subtraction problems and staplers and crayons to practice taking measurements.
While this Atlanta public school wasn’t ensnared in a massive cheating scandal that led to criminal charges against the district’s former superintendent and 34 other educators, it’s a sign of the intensive work being done across the district to remediate children affected by allegations of forged test scores as well as those who have simply fallen behind.
