Oops. Never mind. Sort of.

12 Atlanta educators named in cheating case going back to work | ajc.com
Twelve Atlanta educators implicated in a massive test cheating investigation will be allowed to return to work, school district officials said Thursday. It's the first time Atlanta Public Schools has reinstated any of the approximately 180 educators named in the case.
...After reviewing the cases, the district concluded there was not enough evidence to prove the 12 reinstated educators cheated or knew about cheating.
...Eight of the reinstated educators are from Peyton Forest Elementary, two are from Finch Elementary, one is from D.H. Stanton Elementary and one is from Fain Elementary, [Superintendent Erroll] Davis said. The educators may not be assigned to the same school, as their positions were filled while they were on leave.

It seems to me that if this announcement meant that APS has unequivocally cleared these employees of wrongdoing, they would name names. That's how I read this comment from Bob Wilson, co-author of That Report To The Governor:

If anything, he said, the report fell short of identifying all educators who participated in cheating. But standards of evidence must be met in order to fire teachers, and that’s not what the investigation set out to do. “I don’t think it raises any questions about the investigation,” he said. “The mere fact they don’t have enough evidence doesn’t mean teachers didn’t violate protocol of the test.”

So, if you look at this scandal as if it were a game, a dozen players just won. They got to take a year off with pay and have jobs waiting for them this fall.

Do you suppose they will return to work committed to record-keeping honesty? Thinking "*whew*, dodged a bullet, better not do that again"? Or will they conclude that what they did is pretty much what APS wants them to do?

LATER: Now we've got names, and they and their attorneys seem to think their names have been cleared, which just goes to show they don't know how trials work.