Texas prosecutors have charged five individuals for allegedly orchestrating an elaborate cheating scheme that led to over 200 unqualified teachers fraudulently obtaining teaching certifications.
The scheme, alleged to have been concocted by high school basketball coach Vincent Grayson, involved a plan to cheat the Texas Education Agency’s (TEA) teacher certification exams, according to NBC News.
Grayson and his co-conspirators are accused of having taken in over one million dollars by helping candidates pass certification tests using proxies to sit in for the exams in place of the applicants.
In the scheme, individuals would typically pay $2,500 to have a proxy take certification tests for them at two testing centers in Houston. The scandal involved bribing a testing proctor to allow test applicants and their proxy to switch places, Harris County District…
