A retired teacher has been arrested and charged with helping her students as they took a South Carolina achievement test last year.

Georgia’s teacher certification agency has received complaints for the four school districts where a state audit found cheating on standardized math tests.

The state Board of Education has approved unanimously a plan to toss out scores for standardized tests at four elementary schools where cheating was discovered.

Police say a suburban Atlanta principal and his assistant principal have been arrested in connection with an investigation into whether student test scores were altered to improve school performance. Former Atherton Elementary principal James Berry was arrested at home Friday. Assistant principal Doretha Alexander turned herself in to police Thursday night and was later released on bond.

The head of the state’s Senate education committee wants to create a law that would levy criminal charges against educators who change answers on standardized tests.

Florida State has been put on four years’ probation by the NCAA and will lose scholarships in football and forfeit games because of an academic cheating scandal.

Tennessee’s Lane Kiffin has been reprimanded by the Southeastern Conference for falsely accusing Florida coach Urban Meyer of a recruiting violation. And the new coach of the Volunteers has apologized for his remarks.

A Bartow County jury has found a man guilty of suffocating his wife last year after she had an extramarital affair.

Nearly 30 Richmond County students are suspended, after school officials say they all took part in a scheme to hack into a teacher’s computer to change their grades. The students were enrolled in an online state program to get class credit. School leaders say the incident started last summer. After they noticed some unusual activity, they investigated and discovered the scheme. Count on our Fraendy Clervaud for the story.

Richmond County school officials say nearly 30 students used a stolen computer password to alter their grades over the summer.