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UPDATE:The Office of the State Superintendent of Education now tells us that, contrary to the USA Today report, “there is no meeting scheduled” for April 6 on the topic of test tampering.

The D.C. State Board of Education will reportedly hold a hearing on April 6 to address allegations that officials at Crosby S. Noyes Education Campus may have tampered with standardized test scores to boost performance ratings. USA Today, who published the investigative report regarding “extraordinarily high numbers of erasures on standardized tests,” including a pattern where “wrong answers were erased and changed to right ones,” reports today that the Board will request a report of a DCPS investigation into such claims in 2009.

Former D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee also responded to the accusations, lashing out against opponents of education reform:

“It isn’t surprising,” Rhee said in a statement Monday, “that the enemies of school reform once again are trying to argue that the Earth is flat and that there is no way test scores could have improved … unless someone cheated.”

Rhee also said that the USA Today report “absolutely lacked credibility,” and was “an insult to the dedicated teachers and schoolchildren who worked hard to improve their academic achievement levels.” The hearing hasn’t yet hit the board’s calendar, but given the players and the accusations involved, it should be a rather feisty one.