Spruce High School apparently has a unique way of handling SEI and CEI scores. Here is some information that you should be able to verify with a Texas Open Records request:

Spruce promoted a math teacher to department head. Turns out that he was reprimanded by the last school administration for helping students cheat on a high-stakes examination.

If the current administrators didn't bother to check the personnel records of this employee, is this negligence? Incompetence?

Or, did they know about this alleged act of less-than-honorable behavior? If so, maybe they are hoping that he can continue "tutoring" students during an examination like TAKS.

It would in the public interest for someone to find out exactly what is going on at Spruce. Is taking the easy way to higher test scores ever the right thing to do?