Sanctions have been handed down for the first group of educators caught up in the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal.

The Professional Standards Commission, which oversees the certifications of Georgia teachers, has voted to suspend the teaching certificates of eight teachers and revoke those of three administrators.

"All of the 11 cases did involve either changing answers on the CRCT or failing to exercise duties to see that proper testing conditions and protocol was adhered to," says PSC executive secretary Kelly Henson.

He tells WSB's Sandra Parrish the revocation of a teaching certificate likely means the educators will not be able to get another teaching job anywhere in the country.

"We are in a national consortium in which suspensions and revocations are on a national database and every state in the nation utilizing that database," says Henson.

The educators in this first round will receive notification of the sanctions by next week and can choose either to accept them or appeal to the attorney general's office.  From there, a hearing would be held before an administrative law judge with the ruling going back to the PSC.

Henson says nearly 200 more cases involving educators in the APS scandal will come before the commission between now and February.