Georgia’s Atlanta Technical College has surrendered its aviation maintenance technician school certificate after the FAA issued a suspension order, based on allegations that the school failed to maintain approved grade, attendance and make-up reports for students in its aviation maintenance technology (AVMT) program. According to the agency, grade records for students were incomplete or not signed by instructors, and students who had missed classes were permitted to move on to the next block of instruction without having to make them up.
The school has not enrolled any new students or conducted any AVMT classes since May 2014, and the FAA rescinded its approved curriculum a month later. However, since that time the technical college has continued to administer exit examinations and issue certificates of completion to its former students, even though it no longer had authorization to do so, the FAA said.
In addition, the school failed to provide the FAA with requested copies of each certificate of completion along with a detailed analysis of how students received such certificates in the absence of an agency-approved curriculum. In the suspension order, issued November 29, the FAA noted that the school could reapply for the certificate once it demonstrates its Part 147 record-keeping qualifications.