Changing Grades for Cash and Booze

An instructor at LaGuardia Community College was charged with accepting payments for better grades. Elvin Escano, who taught computer science, was arraigned on a 137 count indictment; apparently, he would accept cash or liquor (examples cited were a $200 cash payment and a $2,500 bottle of wine). The DA claims Escano changed grades in the registrar's office and even asked students to "steer business his way," according to WABC 7.

Escano pleaded not guilty. LaGuardia Community College supported the DA's indictment, but it's not clear what will happen to the students whose grades were altered.

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By Jen Chung in News on December 7, 2006 8:25 AM

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mingala1

LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, is a scandal waiting to explode. You are invited to visit http://www.Laguardiacorruption.com to see the deleterious effect of administrative corruption on education and, in particular, how cronyism, rampant grade inflation, fraudulent course material and fraudulent remedial exams have rendered the Mathematics and English Departments dysfunctional. With more than 130,000 visits to date, the website aims to inform all colleges, education associations, interested taxpayers, elected officials and news media in the New York City vicinity.

Joe Blow

To Iani: I'm sure the student could do that calculation. The point is, the student is incapable of passing the class and so decides to buy it.

Duh!