Cheat heat for U-Haul principal
By YOAV GONEN
Last Updated: 2:09 AM, August 2, 2011
Posted: 1:55 AM, August 2, 2011

LICIAGA --  Target of Regents probe
 

A Brooklyn principal who recklessly sent students on a long trip for furniture in a U-Haul truck is also being probed over claims of Regents cheating at her school, The Post has learned.

The investigation of Multicultural HS Principal Altagracia Liciaga by the Department of Education comes after teachers complained that they were pressured to help kids pass at all costs.

Several instructors told The Post that science Regents exams had been brazenly taken out of the Cypress Hills building for scoring in past years.

They also said a close associate of Liciaga's was seen holding up a poster containing the answers to math Regents in front of a classroom of test-taking students in August 2010.


Ninety-eight percent of students passed the exam with a score of 65 or higher that year, as did 99 percent in 2009.

This year, after teachers made efforts to stymie the proctoring oddities, just 1 out of 72 kids passed the math Regents, a source said.