Charleston teachers question testing environment

Some teachers say Charleston County school officials didn’t allow snacks or breaks during standardized testing this year at an inner-city school where test scores once shot up, but then dropped.
 
School district officials say they only tried to make sure the students received snacks and breaks in an organized fashion that didn’t distract from the testing at Sanders-Clyde Elementary School.
   
Officials are now questioning what they call an unusual number of erasure marks on old tests, and law enforcement is investigating.
   
Former principal MiShawna Moore has denied cheating or asking anyone to cheat on the state Palmetto Achievement Challenge Tests at Sanders-Clyde Elementary. Moore now works at a school in North Carolina.
   
The district official who oversaw the monitoring process has said it was unobtrusive.