NJ State: Princeton High School Falsified Student Transcripts

Laura Waters:

The Trenton Times is reporting that Princeton High School, one of NJ's highest-performing high schools, "allowed a 'significant' number of students to graduate over a four-year period despite their excessive absences, and in some cases could not provide documentation to justify the waiving of attendance requirements, a state investigation concluded."

According to the article, the state Department of Education's Office for Fiscal Accountability and Compliance released a report that shows that during the period of 2008-2012 "district staff altered transcripts by hand to show students earning credits that had been lost because of excessive absences." In addition, PHS Principal Gary Snyder tried to "dodge a question" related to the alterations.

The Princeton Board of Education has released a statement, which concludes,

Posted by Jim Zellmer at April 11, 2013 2:23 AM
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