colbert-busch, the sister of stephen colbert. award winning superintendent has left jail after posting bond. beverly hall accused of rewarding teacher who s allegedly changed student test scores in the atlanta public school district. she earned $225,000 in bonuses over three years for the unexplained test score game. the former atlanta superintendent denies wrongdoing. 35 other atlanta educators are indicted. 26 have turned themselves in. the man in prison for the involuntary manslaughter in the case of michael jackson is speaking out amidst a new lawsuit, trying to clear his name. conrad murray insists he is not guilty. not all that s making news this morning. last night, conrad murray, dr. murray, actually sang a song, a nat king cole song for anderson
and racketeering for allegedly changing or fabricating student test scores. the prosecutors said the motivation was to get bonuses which was tied to student performance on standardized tests. the fulton county grand jury has returned an indictment, one indictment, that contains 65 counts against 35 defendants. i believe over the last 21 months that we have made some very good progress, but healing is obviously difficult when you consider the gravity of these indictments. and those charged in this case have until tuesday to turn themselves in. in iowa, a leading newspaper is under fire for publishing a map that showed which schools have security officers and which do not. the des moines register s editor said they were just trying to bring attention to the issue of school safety when they published the article online on wednesday, but readers complained and the article was taken down after 30 minutes. millions of people across
north korea s newsing a si says the country has entered a state of war with south korea. pyongyang has threatened to dissolve the u.s. but they say this is not first time that the north has made such threats. she was considered one of the nation s top school superintendents just a few years ago. but now she could end up in prison. a grand jury in georgia has indicted former atlanta school superintendent beverly hall and 34 other educators. they are accused of corruption and racketeering for allegedly changing or fabricating student test scores. prosecutors say the motivation was to get bonuses tied to student performance. and a rare collection of letters will be up for auction in late may. an anonymous donor is selling 50 letters including an angry note from john lennon to paul mccartney after the beatles broke up. but the biggest letter, one from
2009, after the atlanta journal constitution found steep, unexplicable rises in student test scores. one parent brought her concerns to the school board in 2006, after her daughter scored exceptionally well on a state exam, despite struggling through much of the third grade. i m disappointed. as a parent, that wants the best for their child, i m very disappointed. now the charges ranged from racketeering to theft for the annual bonuses that educators collected that were all based on those bogus test results. so a really strange moment on the arizona border with washington s gang of eight. plus, the great coupon crackdown. pores just by washing? [ female announcer ] neutrogena® pore refining cleanser. alpha-hydroxy and exfoliating beads work to clean and tighten pores so they can look half their size. pores.shrink em down to size! [ female announcer ] pore refining cleanser. neutrogena.®
students. now, my opponent, he wants to gut our investments in education to give tax breaks to the wealthy. well, there are disagreements, education analysts also point out that democrats and republicans do share some common ground on key education issues including charter school expansion, teacher performance evaluations and national standards. let me bring in michelle reese, ceo and founder of students first and, of course, am former chancellor of the washington, d.c., public schools. always good to have you on the program. good morning. nice to be here. thanks. let me talk a little bit about the president s education policies because he has pumped billions of dollars of stimulus money into education for charter schools, for student test scores, to evaluate teachers, among other things. has the money been well spent, do you think? oh, absolutely. i think the $4.3 billion that was invested in the race to the top initiative has sparked more