Georgia teachers SRU story update

galanga · Nov 29, 2004

Ex-teachers want back in the classroom, Jaime Sarrio, Gwinnett Daily Post, November 29, 2004.

Eleven former educators who lost their teaching certificates after buying bogus degrees on the Internet want to be let back inside the classroom.

In July, the Professional Standards Commission yanked the licenses of 11 Georgia teachers — six from Gwinnett — with degrees from Saint Regis University, a Web-based company that claims to be an online school established in Liberia. Members of the commission said the teachers knew the degrees were fake when they submitted them for a salary boost...

Phil Blackwell, director of certification for the commission, said Georgia has tightened the rules on foreign credits. The state will only accept transcripts evaluated by certain agencies.

The state is also combing its records and staying alert for unfamiliar universities, he said...

Tightened efforts have stopped at least one person from using a diploma mill degree to earn a teaching certificate, Blackwell said. Earlier this month, a man submitted a bachelor’s degree from Adam Smith University — an online school state officials believe is bogus...
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