Hollywood is turning Atlanta’s Public School cheating scandal into a movie.
According to the New York Times, Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler, the team behind Fruitvale Station and Creed are turning the standardized cheating scandal that rattled Atlanta’s education system two years .
The project is still in development so details are not clear, but according to the New York Times, Michael B. Jordan will star in “Wrong Answer.”
Michael B. Jordan is currently playing the real-life lawyer Bryan Stevenson in “Just Mercy” a drama directed by Destin Daniel Cretton from Short Term 12.
Back in 2013, five teachers a principal and five educators were indicted following years of cheating. The indictment came as Atlanta students drastically improved their scores on the Criterion-Referenced Competency Test, a standardized test administered by the state of Georgia.
Recently, 11 of the 12 educators were convicted of racketeering, a felony that can put these Atlanta educators behind bars for 20 years in prison. Many were convicted of other charges that could even lengthen their sentences.
It all started when the AJC began publishing articles in 2009 about the standardized test scores, which prompted Governonr Sonny Perdue to open an investigation into the matter. Two years later, the investigation found that cheating took place in at least 44 different schools and that one of Georgia’s major school districts had been seriously affected with “organized and systemic misconduct.”
Michael B. Jordan is expected to play an Atlanta schoolteacher caught in the middle of the scandal, according to the New York Times.
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