Is there a scorecard?

5 more APS teachers targeted for firing | ajc.com
Atlanta Public Schools is taking steps to fire five teachers implicated in a widespread test-cheating scandal, joining 11 others targeted for termination earlier this month.
After months of delay and millions spent in payroll and legal expenses, the district is trying to get educators accused of cheating off the payroll. APS has sent out a total of 16 "charge letters," notifying teachers of the intent to fire them and explaining the reasons why.
...Of the 11 educators sent charge letters earlier, nine have resigned or retired. One attended a hearing, but lost. One is scheduled for a hearing Friday.

Well, I guess we have to call them educators, since many of them -- the ones who have the most to account for -- aren't teachers.

So let me think. Of "about 180" originally named in July 2011, as of February more than 80 had confessed. I'm not sure how that compares to the numbers in this article, though:

• "About 70 have left the district." Does this mean physically relocated, or just no longer being paid? They didn't wait for a charge letter. It sounds like they've escaped formal censure / consequences from APS, PSC or the courts. That makes me sad. It means that for those who left APS since 2009 who apply for another job, the circumstances of their leaving APS will be suspect. That's unfair to the innocent (if any) and not enough for the unrepentant guilty. On the other hand, we've seen a couple of high-profile "escapees" whose new employers didn't actually make the connection until after they had actually started their new jobs. School system personnel offices must not look very hard at applicants' job histories.
• 9 waited until after they'd actually received a charge letter to resign rather than face a hearing. I guess they dodged the bullet, too. (Or is that a tasteless metaphor to use for schoolteachers these days?)
• 1 "attended a hearing, but lost."
• 1 "is scheduled for a hearing Friday."
• 5 more have just been sent charge letters and face a fight-or-flight decision deadline.
• "About 94" to go.

I'm not feeling very optimistic.

C'mon, "educators." If you don't start naming names, the administrators who are really responsible for this mess are going to walk.

LATER: Three more charge letters have been sent.

That brings to 19 the number of educators the district has taken steps to terminate after months of delay and millions spent in payroll and legal expenses. APS is paying about $1 million a month to some 110 educators accused of cheating who remain on leave, but the system is trying to resolve the cases by the end of the school year.

I'm updating this scorecard. I'm thinking that these 19 are some of the "more than 80" confessors, who in turn comprised part of the "about 110" remaining when we subtract the 70 who ran the fastest from the 180 who were originally accused. This would be so much easier if they'd use hard numbers instead of "more than 80" and "about 180." Is "some 110" an exact number, I wonder, or another weasel guess?

I tell you, I can't wait until they get around to those SRT directors, who have neither confessed nor resigned.