A Year Later, State Appointed Investigator Stands By Cheating Report

“Actually there were far more cheaters than we identified by name and that’s why I say we stand by the report. The cheating was rampant.”

Bowers and former DeKalb County district attorney Bob Wilson were chosen by then governor Sonny Perdue to find out the extent of cheating within APS.

“I don’t feel like we wasted our time. Governor Perdue asked us and Gov. Deal confirmed for us to find the truth and I think that’s precisely what we did.”

The evidence led to an eight hundred page report.

It contained interviews, testimonies and erasure analysis.

“We had concrete evidence, for not to have made the conclusions we made, you would have had to been deaf, dumb and blind,” says Bowers.

In an interview with WABE, attorney Quinton Washington talked about the evidence against his clients.

“There was never any specific evidence that said they were cheating.”

Washington’s two clients were reinstated and offered contracts for the upcoming school year.

Both were teachers at Finch elementary.

Mike Bowers says he stands by the initial report and gives credit to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation for assisting in the probe.

“The victims were little children. The primary victims were little children and those little children got cheated and there’s no excuse for it, absolutely no excuse.”

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For the complete investigative report, click here for Volume 1, Volume 2, and Volume 3.