The APS cheating scandal is also calling into question e-mails from the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. 

Investigators claim those e-mails show an effort to try and keep the governor from investigating in an effort to protect the city's reputation.

The emails were written by a Chamber vice president, but she could not be reached. 

Channel 2 did talk to Bill Linginfelter, who was the Chamber's Chair during the investigation.

"We are still focused on what really matters," Linginfelter said.

The Governor's report call the quality of the education into question, pointing to an email in August of 2010 in which Chamber Vice President of Public Policy Renay Blumenthal says, "We could finesse this through them," which investigators thought they were trying to finesse the bad news past Governor Sonny Perdue. But Linginfelter tells Channel 2 Action News that's not true.

"The intent has always been whomever read the report to fully understood it." Linginfelter said.

In another email, Blumenthal quotes a researcher who suggests then Superintendent Beverly Hall should deal with one report, "say strongly I'm going to act on it" (and not ask for data).  Critics like John Sherman of the Fulton County Taxpayers Association are furious.

"The importance of covering it up for the reputation of the business community of Atlanta -- shameful, absolutely shameful," Sherman said.

The report does not say the business' actions were a cover up and Linginfelter says there was never an attempt to that. 

"Because the business community is strictly interested in making sure that Atlanta's children are well educated and well prepared for college, technical schools, or the workforce," said Linginfelter.

Both agree it's time to move on.