Judge drops prison time for former principal convicted in the Atlanta Public Schools’ cheating scandal

A former principal convicted in the Atlanta Public Schools’ cheating scandal will be spared from prison after a Fulton County judge agreed Tuesday to lighten the sentence he imposed seven years ago.

Dana Evans, the former principal of Dobbs Elementary School, was sentenced to one year in prison and four years of probation in 2015 after a jury found her and 10 other former Atlanta educators guilty of racketeering.

Read the full story in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution