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A former Columbus school district administrator was sentenced to 14 days in jail for his role in manipulating student data to inflate the district’s standing, the Columbus Dispatch reported. Michael ...

New developments in the Columbus City Schools data scrubbing scandal, four years after the state launched an investigation. That investigation ended two years ago but it appears the Ohio Department of ...

In order to comply with state rules, Cincinnati Public Schools says it has changed the way it reports when a student transfers from one school in the district to another. Instead of withdrawing the ...

Two guidance counselors at Whetstone High School sat down at their computers at roughly the same time, just before 10 a.m., on June 6, 2011. School was out for summer. They made students’ grades ...

Is your school or district planning to develop or purchase tools and technologies to better enable data-driven decision-making (D3M)? First, you’ll need to make sure that your data is top-quality.

COLUMBUS — School board members delayed any independent investigation into charter school data scrubbing — instead waiting for inspector general and state auditor to review thousands of records. State ...

Temptations toward attendance data “scrubbing” can include rosier district report cards, added state or federal funding, and employee bonuses. A former superintendent went to prison in Texas for ...

McClatchy-Tribune contributed to this report. The investigation found that school officials in several Ohio districts withdrew and then re-enrolled students with poor attendance records. Those ...

The need to scrub data is made pretty clear by simple questions like this one: Are Jerry L. Jonson of 16 Clarke St., Altuna, PA, and Gerry L. Johnson of 16 Clark Street, Altoona, Penn., the same ...