Education Department Probes Cheating Reports

The State Education Department is investigating reports that some schools have cheated on the state MAP tests – the annual achievement tests. A Department spokesman says it’s investigating seven allegations. One of the schools being checked is a charter school in St. Louis, where a principal is accused of taking test booklets that had not been completed by students, and returning them to teachers to have students fill in the rest of the pages. But some of the MAP tests are timed tests and cannot be completed once the time is up.