COLUMBUS, Ohio – Today is the day the piper arrives for Columbus City Schools officials and he will expect to be paid.
State Auditor Dave Yost is scheduled to release his findings of a state auditor’s investigation into allegations employees of Ohio’s largest school district manipulated attendance data.
The investigation, which has been joined by federal authorities, may result in criminal charges.
District employees have been accused of altering attendance records for struggling students to improve performance ratings, which can be used to determine government funding and employee bonuses. The practice is called “data-scrubbing.”
Yost’s review of Columbus was spun from a broader review he conducted last year that identified more than 70 Ohio schools or districts that made attendance reporting errors and a handful that scrubbed.