PITTSFIELD — In the spring of 2012, nearly 100 students at Stuyvesant High School, a prestigious public high school in New York’s Battery Park City, were implicated in a cheating scandal on standardized New York State Regents exams. To a degree, the scandal came as no surprise to students at the school who had been complaining for years about rampant cheating.
BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY
'ABCD' examines the pressures put on public schools to perform well on standardized tests
Play inspired by real standardized-test cheating scandals
The cast of "ABCD," top row, left to right, Pearl Shin, Torée Alexandre, Juri Henley-Cohn, Justin Ahdoot, Melvin Abston and Brandon St. Clair. Bottom row, left to right, Chavez Ravine and Maribel Martinez.
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Jeffrey Borak is The Eagle's theater critic.
Jeffrey Borak
Jeffrey Borak is The Eagle's theater critic.