with the starr tribune and susan urahn here in washington with the pew center on the states. thank you. >> ifill: now, an exhaustive new report reveals nearly two hundred educators cheated to boost student test scores in atlanta-- a problem that has surfaced in school districts across the country. the georgia investigation, commissioned by governor nathan deal, found results were altered on state curriculum tests by district administrators, principals and teachers, for as long as a decade. educators literally erased and corrected students' mistakes to make sure schools met state- imposed testing standards. and it found evidence of cheating in 44 of the 56 schools examined for the 2009 school year. the "atlanta journal constitution" has been digging into the inconsistencies for more than two years. reporter heather vogell joins me now. welcome, heather. so tell me, how did all of this surface? you have been spending a lot of time reporting on this? >> yes, we first wrote about suspicious scores in at an la a school back in december of 2008 and we did an additional analysis in