Grade-changing policies attracting scrutiny

It started in January in Beaufort County, where a principal was removed for changing students' grades. Turns out, districts have policies that allow for grades to be changed, but only under certain circumstances.

Now, in Hampton County, the matter of grade-changing is getting additional study -- except in this case, there seems not to be a written policy.

This, from editor Michael DeWitt of the

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Grade-changing costs Beaufort principal his job

An item in the Island Packet reported Friday that the principal of Beaufort High School, Dan Durbin, had resigned immediately at the request of Superintendent Valerie Truesdale "for changing grades."

But there's clearly a bigger story here.Truesdale says Durbin violated district policy and state law in changing 200 grades for 33 students over the past two years. Durbin never denied making the

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