Mississippi Business Journal » cheater http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 24 May 2013 20:36:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Man gets seven years in prison for teacher-cheating scheme http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/13/man-gets-seven-years-in-prison-for-teacher-cheating-scheme/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=man-gets-seven-years-in-prison-for-teacher-cheating-scheme http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/13/man-gets-seven-years-in-prison-for-teacher-cheating-scheme/#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 20:03:13 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=74713 MEMPHIS — A federal judge in Memphis has sentenced a longtime Memphis educator to seven years in prison in a test-taking fraud scheme. Clarence Mumford Sr. pleaded guilty in February to leading a 15-year scheme that helped teachers cheat on qualification exams. The passing scores were then used to help people get jobs in public [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/13/man-gets-seven-years-in-prison-for-teacher-cheating-scheme/feed/ 0 Educator rejects plea deal, will stand trial in teacher exam scandal http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/01/25/educator-rejects-plea-deal-will-stand-trial-in-teacher-exam-scandal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=educator-rejects-plea-deal-will-stand-trial-in-teacher-exam-scandal http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/01/25/educator-rejects-plea-deal-will-stand-trial-in-teacher-exam-scandal/#comments Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:59:58 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=68738 MEMPHIS, Tenn. — In a surprising legal move, a longtime Memphis educator is going to trial on charges that he led a three-state organization that helped teachers cheat on qualification tests. At a hearing this morning, Coleman Garrett, a lawyer for Clarence Mumford Sr., told a federal judge that his client is not changing his [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/01/25/educator-rejects-plea-deal-will-stand-trial-in-teacher-exam-scandal/feed/ 0 Authorities: Teacher test-cheating scandal ‘brazen’ http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/11/26/authorities-teacher-test-cheating-scandal-brazen/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=authorities-teacher-test-cheating-scandal-brazen http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/11/26/authorities-teacher-test-cheating-scandal-brazen/#comments Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:03:25 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=65679 MEMPHIS, Tenn. — It was a brazen and surprisingly long-lived scheme, authorities said, to help aspiring public school teachers cheat on the tests they must pass to prove they are qualified to lead their classrooms. For 15 years, teachers in three Southern states paid Clarence Mumford Sr. — himself a longtime educator — to send [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/11/26/authorities-teacher-test-cheating-scandal-brazen/feed/ 0 Teacher to answer charges of cheating on certification test http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/28/teacher-to-answer-charges-of-cheating-on-certification-test/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=teacher-to-answer-charges-of-cheating-on-certification-test http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/28/teacher-to-answer-charges-of-cheating-on-certification-test/#comments Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:33:21 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=63226 COLUMBUS — A Columbus teacher is scheduled to be in federal court in Memphis, Tenn., on Oct. 3 to answer charges she participating in a scheme in which teacher candidates would hire others to take certification tests. WCBI-TV reports 34-yeard-old Darcel Gardner, a special education teacher at Columbus High School, was placed on administrative leave [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/28/teacher-to-answer-charges-of-cheating-on-certification-test/feed/ 1 More charged in multi-state teacher exam cheating scheme http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/20/more-charged-in-multi-state-teacher-exam-cheating-scheme/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=more-charged-in-multi-state-teacher-exam-cheating-scheme http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/20/more-charged-in-multi-state-teacher-exam-cheating-scheme/#comments Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:04:56 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=62875 MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Federal prosecutors in Memphis have announced that 10 more people have been indicted in a scheme to hire others to take teacher certification tests in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi. The additional defendants stem from a 45-count indictment returned by a grand jury in July that charged Clarence Mumford Sr. of Memphis with [...]

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