Most certainly any teacher or school administrator that cheats on a test should be fired. It's interesting in this case the teachers and administrators were not cheating to improve their own grades but changing student grades on standardized tests. It is not just one isolated case either, over a hundred educators are accused. This raises a number of questions.
Firstly standardized tests are supposed to provide an objective comparison for students applying to college or other post secondary institutions. How reliable are they?
Second if the teachers were willing to risk their jobs by doing something so unethical, why? Is it because they risked being evaluated on the results of the students? Were they going to loose their jobs because of low student achievement, so said why not try cheating?
Again this is an American study but I know that similar pressures do exist here in Alberta where teacher performance is evaluated on the grades students achieve.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/07/15/georgia.atlanta.schools.cheating/index.html?hpt=hp_bn1
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