Campbell schools referred to Ohio Office of Professional Conduct

CAMPBELL — The Ohio Department of Education referred seven school districts, including Campbell, to its Office of Professional Conduct today after confirming those districts had improperly reported attendance data or used questionable practices during the 2010-2011 academic year.

During its investigations into eight school districts identified by Auditor of State Dave Yost as having “evidence of scrubbing,” the ODE found that six districts “failed to demonstrate that they made a good-faith effort to properly report attendance data as required by law,” according to an ODE press release. These districts must submit corrective-action plans to address those concerns.

This inaccurate reporting of data, then, may have positively affected state report cards for that year, which necessitates the need to recalculate and reissue them to affected districts.

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