People would typically pay $2,500 to the scheme's fixer, who would bribe test officials and have proxies take their certification tests, prosecutors said.

People would typically pay $2,500 to the scheme’s fixer, who would bribe test officials and have proxies take their certification tests, prosecutors said.

Five people have been charged in Texas with organizing and participating in an illegal cheating scheme that certified more than 200 unqualified teachers and helped the plot’s “kingpin” rake in more than $1 million, prosecutors said.

In the scheme, people would typically pay $2,500 to have proxies take certification tests for them at two testing centers in Houston. The scandal involved bribing a testing proctor to allow test applicants and their proxies to switch places, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said at a news conference Monday.

  • Flying Squid
    5•19 days ago

    I should have, but I didn’t realize the extent of it. My daughter is not as talkative about this stuff as she should be no matter what happens or how much we try to convince her.