State Investigators Warn Atlanta Public Schools to Stay Out of the CRCT Cheating Probe: A Conversation with State Investigator Bob Wilson

By Denis O'Hayer

Atlanta, GA – The investigators appointed by Governor Perdue to look into allegations of cheating on the Criterion Referenced Competency Test in the Atlanta Public Schools have rejected a request from Atlanta school officials who wanted to participate in the probe.

Former state Attorney General Mike Bowers and former DeKalb County District Attorney Bob Wilson have also warned the Atlanta schools against mounting their own investigation. APS already has the results of a probe by a blue ribbon commission appointed by the school board. But Governor Perdue called it "inadequate."

The school district has named another former DeKalb District Attorney, J. Tom Morgan, to represent APS in the new state investigation. In a conversation with WABE's Denis O'Hayer, state investigator Bob Wilson said the school system has repeatedly tried to join the probe a request Wilson warned could cross the line into obstruction.

(WABE is a broadcast service of the Atlanta Public Schools.)