Education Department: Audit statement on teacher background checks ‘misleading’

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An audit used to call for a law requiring school districts to conduct fingerprint and criminal history investigations of teachers every five years is misleading, the State Department of Education says.

The department is challenging a portion of an audit conducted by the Medicaid inspector general that suggested it was "reasonable to assume" that there were public school teachers who haven't had a criminal background check in 10 to 20 years.

The inspector general came to that conclusion as . . .

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