Test security: Philadelphia gets strictest treatment

Heightened security measures are expected to again be in force throughout the School District of Philadelphia when state standardized tests are administered next spring.

Changes are unlikely at least until current cheating investigations are brought to a close, according to Pennsylvania Department of Education spokesman Tim Eller.

Security will again be tightest at the 53 district schools under suspicion of cheating. But the most controversial change made this year — a ban on teachers administering the tests to their own students — continues to apply districtwide.

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