Now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news. Reporting tonight lester holt. Good evening. Its bad enough when kids cheat in school to get ahead but the teachers themselves . Today in atlanta nearly a dozen former educators were convicted on racketeering and other charges for their part in one of the nations biggest cheating scandals. Prosecutors say it was a massive conspiracy to make sure students passed standardized tests even if it meant giving kids the correct answers. The scandal dates back a decade. It involved dozens of schools. And a lot of grownups apparently failed one of the lessons we were all taught. Nbcs chief education correspondent rehema ellis is on the story for us tonight. Reporter it was a stunning verdict. We the jury find the defendant guilty. Reporter former educators found guilty of racketeering in an unprecedented case of teachers and administrators charged with fixing test scores and changing answers on standardized tests. Weve b
From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news. Reporting tonight lester holt. Good evening. Its bad enough when kids cheat in school to get ahead, but the teachers themselves . Today in atlanta nearly a dozen former educators were convicted on racketeering and other charges for their part in one of the nations biggest cheating scandals. Prosecutors say it was a massive conspiracy to make sure students passed standardized tests even if it meant giving kids the correct answers. The scandal dates back a decade. It involved dozens of schools. And a lot of grownups apparently failed one of the lessons we were all taught. Nbcs chief education correspondent rehema ellis is on the story for us tonight. Reporter it was a stunning verdict. We the jury find the defendant guilty. Reporter former educators found guilty of racketeering in an unprecedented case of teachers and administrators charged with fixing test scores and changing answers on standardized tests. Weve been
Nightly news begins now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news. Reporting tonight lester holt. A special good evening to our viewers in the west where the state of california is resorting to drastic measures tonight to combat its severe drought. The governor ordering the strictest crackdown in the States History and that means big sacrifices for tens and millions of people. Miguel almaguer is outside of los angeles to start us off in a place that puts things in perspective. Miguel, good evening. Reporter lester, good evening. As we enter our fourth year of drought here in california, these conditions are symbolic all across the west. Were technically in the middle of our rainy season. Mountains should be lush with green, instead theyre bone dry. Tonight, we are coming to you from lake piru. Were at the bottom of a reservoir. We should be 30 feet under water here, instead these are the conditions. This is why california is in a state of emergency. In the
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