AG Goes After Diploma Mill

The Attorney General's office says not all high school diploma's are created equal, especially when they come from a diploma mill. That's what it is calling Sunrise, Bluebonnet and Longhorn online high school's run by a company called Advent Harvest Academy. An order stopping the school operations and naming directors Teri Tout-Dennis and Mike Martin of Tarrant County has been issued with a hearing set for November 4th. Attorney General Spokesman Tom Kelley says first you paid $225.00. "They are given at some point a short, non descript, test, which they would fill out and fax back to the "graders" and then they would grade the test, pass them of course, and then they would send them a diploma with full transcript through the mail." All of which Kelley says was phony. He says none of the schools are accredited with any education organization in Texas or elsewhere.