Pamela Cleveland

VERDICT: RICO: GUILTY, False statements: GUILTY

SENTENCE: Five years probation, 1,000 hours of community service, curfew from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. for the first year and a $1,000 fine. She was sentenced as a first offender.

Dunbar Elementary teacher Pamela Cleveland faced one count of racketeering and two counts of false statements and writings.

Former Dunbar Elementary School second-grade teacher Rose Neal testified that she saw second-grade teacher Diane Buckner-Webb and first-grade teachers Pamela Cleveland and Shani Robinson cheat on Georgia’s Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests in the spring of 2009. Neal said she too cheated.

Buckner-Webb, Cleveland and Robinson all faced charges of racketeering and making false statements. A statewide analysis found an abnormally high number of wrong-to-right erasures on standardized tests taken by their students in 2009.

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