Lee Adams, Former Principal Of The Year's Teacher's License Revoked

EAST POINT, Ga. -- GA Daily News has leaed that state authorities revoked the teaching certificate of a once nationally acclaimed Fulton County elementary school principal.

Lee Adams had faced just a one-year suspension after being accused of changing answers on the math portion of the CRCT for fifth-graders at Parklane Elementary School in East Point.

But when Adams appealed the suspension, an administrative judge recommended revocation of his teaching certificate.

”Judge Oakley did not find Lee Adams credible, said Assistant Attoey General Ann Brumbaugh.

Adams’ attoey, David Dunham, challenged the analysis of wrong-to-right erasures, which is part of the evidence against his client.

”This erasure analysis doesn't show anything, Dunham told the State Professional Standards Commission.

Channel 2’s Richard Belcher sat in on the commission hearing.

Dunham told the commission that revocation is often referred to as the death penalty for educators.

The assistant attoey general had a different view.

”All of those questions, the answers were changed to the correct answers, said Brumbaugh.

Belcher obtained a printout that served as the most critical piece of evidence, showing that Adams was at his elementary school for two hours the evening right after the test was administered, when the state contends he changed answers.

”To have someone go in and erase children's answers … along the way to winning a national award based in part on those children's answers, Brumbaugh said.

The State Professional Standards Commission took less than an hour to decide to revoke Adams’ license.

The Fulton County School System told Belcher that Adams' contract was not renewed.

The former principal has one last appeal -- to superior court. His lawyer did not retu Belcher’s call about that.