The Sodom and Gomorrah of Public Schooling?

The Sodom and Gomorrah of Public Schooling?
[Cato @ Liberty] Though Duncan made an off-hand comment that high-stakes NCLB-required tests may have contributed to the pressure that lead to the cheating, he repeatedly blamed the cheating on a uniquely “morally bankrupt culture” in Atlanta’s public schools.

Unique to Atlanta. I see. Can't possibly happen anywhere else. Except that it is: Philadelphia. Washington. Albany, GA. Which is to say, pretty much everywhere it's actually being looked for, it's being found. Yeah, New York has its head firmly embedded in its... er, that is, is dogmatically insisting "it can't happen here," which is what Beverly Hall was saying a couple of years ago, while it was happening here.

Did Rhee and Hall consult the same playbook on how to respond to news of cheating?
[ajc "Get Schooled"] I have to wonder if all school chiefs follow the same playbook when confronted with catastrophic evidence of cheating in their districts: Dodge, deny and dismiss.
It did not work for former APS Superintendent Beverly Hall, and it isn’t working for Michelle Rhee, the ex DC chancellor who is now confronting her own Erasure-gate as the result of a well done USA Today investigation.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt, it's the source of the bottled water they serve in teacher schools.