Atlanta is the latest US city to be involved in a school test cheating scandal.<br /><br />This time, however, it is not the students who are being accused, it is their teachers.<br /><br />No less than 187 teachers and several principals at almost four dozen public schools are accused of turning incorrect answers to correct ones after their students had taken their tests.<br /><br />Nathan Deal, the Georgia state governor, said:, "We determined that 187 teachers and principals in the Atlanta Public Schools cheated. Of the 187, 82 confessed to this misconduct."<br /><br />Teachers cheated to create the illusion that their students were performing better on standardised tests than they actually were because teachers face pay cuts and possible job-loss if their students' test scores do not meet national standards.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Kimberly Halkett reports from Washington DC, USA.
