Atlanta Teacher Sheila Evans Fights Dismissal in Court

Mike Gallagher

Jan 21, 2011 - 13:22

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Atlanta Teacher Sheila Evans Fights Dismissal in Court

The Southern Association for Colleges and Schools released their report on the Atlanta Public School system Tuesday, January 18. The verdict: SACS has put APS high schools on probation but retain their accreditation.

ATLANTA - A third-grade school teacher is claiming in a federal lawsuit that she is the target of an "ill-disguised witch hunt" by the superintendent of the Atlanta Public Schools amid a state investigation into cheating on standardized tests.

Sheila Evans, a teacher at Benteen Elementary School, said she was notified by Superintendent Beverly Hall in December she was to be fired. She said Hall claimed that Evans gave her students answers to questions on the 2009 Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests.

A lawsuit she filed last week in federal court seeks $20 million in damages and a temporary restraining order that would halt her termination. The school district did not immediately respond to the lawsuit.