Reply #5: It'n not a new thing--they've done it before....including student payoffs

[rainbow4321]

With the previous state test--TAAS.


http://web.reporter-news.com/1998/2001/texas/cheat0601.html


Webster said the district would check reports that students at Hernandez were paid cash for passing the TAAS. Students at another Dallas school, Bryan Adams High School, said they were paid for passing the state test.

Cynthia Romero, the mother of a Hernandez student, told WFAA-TV that the day the TAAS was given, her daughter's teacher marked wrong answers with question marks and kept sixth-grader Nicole Vargas after school to correct her answers.

When the school received word this month that students had improved the school's rating from low-performing to acceptable, Nicole and her classmates who passed the TAAS each received $20, Romero said.

Webster called the practice of paying students for passing the test “unsavory,” but he said district policy does not prohibit monetary rewards.