Several local school districts are on a list of districts tied to possible irregularities on the state's STAR test exams.
The California Department of Education believes some students posted questions and answers from the state's standardized tests on social media.
Over 240 school districts are caught-up in the scandal including some here in the valley.
"We've seen images of test questions, those are the 16 schools that had images of test questions," says Deborah Sigman with the California Department of Education.
Sigman admits that this spring some students posted the test questions and or answers on social media while they were taking California's standardized testing and reporting assessment exams.
"The most important thing for us is to make sure that the scores are reliable and valid and extraordinarily confident in that," says Deborah Sigman.
While only sixteen school districts are tied to actually showing the questions and or answers, students in hundreds of other school districts including some here in the valley also posted on social media while taking the exams.
They're considered minor infractions because they didn't actually show the exam questions.
Clovis Unified had three minor incidents.
"One took a picture of the answer sheet he had graffitied, another looks like he took a picture of a Starbucks card," says Carlo Prandini from Clovis Unified.
Clovis Unified reported the incidents months ago and says cell phones are forbidden during testing.
However, "when you test a lot of kids there's the possibility for somebody to do something crazy real quickly but the good news is they were caught we turned them in and we are very vigilant," says Carlo Prandini.
Other local school districts with infractions include Fresno Unified, Central Unified, Sanger Unified, Selma Unified, Farmersville Unified, Fowler Unified, Tulare Joint Union High, Turlock Unified and others.
Despite the infractions the state believes the social media postings had no overall affect on test results.
The state plans to step-up security with more monitoring in the schools and on social media websites.
The California Department of Education believes some students posted questions and answers from the state's standardized tests on social media.
Over 240 school districts are caught-up in the scandal including some here in the valley.
"We've seen images of test questions, those are the 16 schools that had images of test questions," says Deborah Sigman with the California Department of Education.
Sigman admits that this spring some students posted the test questions and or answers on social media while they were taking California's standardized testing and reporting assessment exams.
"The most important thing for us is to make sure that the scores are reliable and valid and extraordinarily confident in that," says Deborah Sigman.
While only sixteen school districts are tied to actually showing the questions and or answers, students in hundreds of other school districts including some here in the valley also posted on social media while taking the exams.
They're considered minor infractions because they didn't actually show the exam questions.
Clovis Unified had three minor incidents.
"One took a picture of the answer sheet he had graffitied, another looks like he took a picture of a Starbucks card," says Carlo Prandini from Clovis Unified.
Clovis Unified reported the incidents months ago and says cell phones are forbidden during testing.
However, "when you test a lot of kids there's the possibility for somebody to do something crazy real quickly but the good news is they were caught we turned them in and we are very vigilant," says Carlo Prandini.
Other local school districts with infractions include Fresno Unified, Central Unified, Sanger Unified, Selma Unified, Farmersville Unified, Fowler Unified, Tulare Joint Union High, Turlock Unified and others.
Despite the infractions the state believes the social media postings had no overall affect on test results.
The state plans to step-up security with more monitoring in the schools and on social media websites.