>School testing investigation moves to next phase
The first team of state investigators is expected tomorrow at Woodbridge’s Avenal Street School, one of nearly a dozen schools singled out last summer for irregularities and possible cheating on state tests.
What raised the red flag? Avenal is one of nine schools that had among the highest erasure rates on the tests in 2010.
In each case, an extraordinary number of answers were changed from wrong to right — as much as four times higher than the norm — according to Robert Cicchino, a former State Police commander who now directs of the department’s Office of Fiscal Accountability and Compliance. (Mooney, NJ Spotlight)