Top education official caught using encrypted message app as grade scandal deepens

(ZEROHEDGE) – Investigative journalist Chris Papst of Fox45 News' Project Baltimore has been leading the charge in exposing a massive grade scandal and subsequent cover-up in the country's fourth most funded school system. The corruption isn't confined to the Baltimore City Public Schools level; it extends all the way up to the Maryland State Superintendent of Schools.

The latest report Chris Papst shared comes weeks after his team found metadata for 98 text messages sent or received by Maryland Superintendent Mohammed Choudhury in the first quarter of this year -- around the time the state changed grades that no longer can be seen.

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And why would the state change the grades? Well, it's alleged that Superintendent Choudhury needs good optics for the crime-ridden metro area after Papst's team released this shocking report in February: 'Education Crisis': 23 Baltimore City Schools Have No Students Proficient In Math.

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