Rep. Mitchell to Propose Reform of CRCT Cheating Legislation

State Rep. Billy Mitchell (D- Stone Mountain) plans to introduce legislation that would require teachers who cheat on CRCTs to return bonuses and incentive pay to the school system.

The legislation would affect teachers who got a raise or a bonus based on falsified standardized tests or student assessments, and it would apply to those who knew that others had cheated on the tests or assessment results.

"By passing this legislation, Georgians will be able to rest assured that those relatively few bad actors would not be unjustly enriched, while their students are placed in peril," Mitchell said in a press release. 

Mitchell's proposal has support from educators, he said, including the president of the Georgia Federal of Teachers, Verdailia Turner, and Calvine Rollins, president of the Georgia Association of Educators. 

"The ill-gotten fruits of cheating should be returned to Georgia's children," Turner said in the statement. "This proposal is both a fair and common-sense approach."