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Jesus Take The Wheel: Bronx Principal Commits Suicide Amid Testing Scandal

So sad… Bronx Principal Jeanene Worrell-Breeden Commits Suicide A principal who was named in her elementary school’s cheating scandal jumped in front of a moving train and ended her life allegedly over the allegations. The New York Post reports: The principal of an innovative West Harlem public school killed herself the day after her students took the state Common Core exams — which were later tossed out because she cheated, The Post has learned. Jeanene Worrell-Breeden, 49, of Teachers College Community School, jumped in front of a B train in the 135th Street station on St. Nicholas Avenue on April 17, police said. She was pulled out from under the train and taken to Harlem Hospital, where she died eight days later. The city Medical Examiner’s Office ruled it a suicide. The leap came at 9:20 a.m., less than 24 hours after her 47 third-graders wrapped up three days sweating over the high-stakes English exam — the first ever given at the fledgling school. It was also the same day a whistleblower reported the cheating to DOE officials. Parents were shocked and saddened to learn Worrell-Breeden died but were given no details at the time. It was rumored she was killed in a car crash. Parents were in for another shock in June. Superintendent Gale Reeves told them in a meeting that all the third-grade English exams had been “red-flagged” and “invalidated.” In a June 22 letter to families, Reeves wrote, “The integrity of the assessment was compromised due to actions outside your child’s control.” Parents grew frustrated. On Friday, the DOE blamed the dead principal. “Principal Worrell-Breeden was the subject of allegations of testing improprieties,” spokeswoman Devora Kaye said. “An investigation substantiated these allegations, and we closed the investigation following her tragic passing.” Wow! What do YOU think about this story??? She was obviously extremely upset over this scandal.

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Jesus Take The Wheel: Bronx Principal Commits Suicide Amid Testing Scandal