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DPS fires principal for inflating CSAP scores

Thursday, June 07, 2012

Originally posted on FOX 31 Denver, June 6, 2012. Copyright © kdvr.com
Read here. Written by Eli Stokols.

DENVER — Frank Roti, the Beach Court Elementary principal lauded for achieving remarkable academic growth among his mostly low-income students, was fired Wednesday after a state investigation concluded that he’d inflated students’ CSAP scores last year.

The Colorado Dept. of Education has ruled all of the school’s 2011 CSAP scores to be invalid.

“It is imperative that we have complete integrity in all the student-achievement results that we share with our students and their families,” DPS Superintendent Tom Boasberg said in a statement. ...

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