Seven teacher licenses are now suspended following what the Indiana Department of Education is calling the largest ISTEP cheating case the state has ever seen.
The state’s investigation began when the test’s vendor Pearson alerted the Indiana Department of Education about irregularities at Frankie W. McCullough Academy for Girls in Gary following the 2017 ISTEP.
“Eight sections of the ISTEP+ in grades 3-6 had abnormally high changes of answers from wrong to right,” state records showed. “Staff at McCullough had no explanation for how this could have occurred and did not report anything unusual during ISTEP+ administration.”...