A large-scale teacher certification scheme has been uncovered in Houston, Texas, affecting hundreds of teachers throughout the state. The scheme involved a group of individuals, including a basketball coach and assistant principals from two historically Black high schools, who facilitated the fraudulent passing of state certification exams. Prosecutors allege that the scheme involved paying someone to impersonate certification candidates and that the ringleader made over $1 million in profit. The scheme was discovered when a former coach with a change of heart alerted authorities about suspicious patterns of aspiring educators passing exams after driving long distances to a specific testing center in Houston. Local and state education officials are now working to identify and remove any falsely certified teachers from the system.