Posted By Jim Turner, NSF on Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 1:14 PM Photo via Richard Corcoran | Facebook Richard Corcoran called the allegations “abhorrent, unacceptable, and embarrassing.” An Estero couple, both educators, entered not-guilty pleas in federal court after being hit with more than 100 wire-fraud and racketeering charges stemming from an alleged scheme that involved selling Florida teacher-certification test information. Kathleen M. Jasper, 42, and Jeremy M. Jasper, 40, are alleged between January 2016 and March 2020 to have sold fraudulently obtained content from the Florida Teacher Certification Exam and the Florida Educational Leadership Exam, which is for administrators. Authorities said the content was included in test preparation materials and services sold through their busin
Couple Charged In Teacher Certification Test Scheme
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“Those questions and answers were purchased by those who sought teacher certification in Florida,” Keefe said during a news conference. “A significant number of individuals as well as organizations obtained these questions and answers and were part of the dissemination of them.”
While Keefe said the case goes beyond Florida, he stressed that there shouldn t be a cloud over the state s teachers and principals.
“Our teachers and our school administrators, the vast, vast, vast majority of them are highly competent, high integrity and selflessly do great and good work each day through very challenging times,” Keefe said. “Great care has to be taken here to make certain that the work we re doing to provide accountability doesn t cast an improper cloud.”