Teacher-Test Proctor, 9 Others Indicted in Cheating Probe
A former test proctor has been indicted on federal fraud and conspiracy charges for allegedly helping aspiring teachers cheat on their licensing exams.
Linda Easter, of Little Rock, Ark., was named along with nine others in an indictment returned Sept. 7 by a grand jury in that city. It accuses her and another woman, Altermease Brown of Greenville, Miss., of accepting cash payments for giving test-takers extra time or assistance on the PRAXIS series of tests required by many states for initial teacher certification.
Ms. Easter was an employee of Philander Smith College in Little Rock, which served as a test site, and also worked as a test-site proctor for the Princeton, N.J.- based Educational Testing Service, which administers the test. She no longer works for the college, and the college is not suspected of any wrongdoing, prosecutors said. She has been dismissed from her proctoring job, ETS spokesman...
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