700 student records subpeonaed by State's Attorney in Churchill HS investigation

The Washington Post:  Montgomery County state's attorney probing grade changes at Potomac school

...School officials said an investigation determined that the grades of 54 students at Winston Churchill High School were improperly altered in the first semester of this school year. Almost 700 families at the school were notified last week that their students' grade records had been turned over to the state's attorney's office. The state's attorney subpoenaed all records related to the school's own investigation into the incident. Eight students were identified as the ringleaders, and three of them are no longer enrolled at the school, according to a letter sent to parents Wednesday from Churchill Principal Joan C. Benz. Disciplinary action against the remaining five is "ongoing," she said in the letter...

March 3, 2010