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By: Tonya Mead, CFE, CHFI, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology A charter school operator in Ohio, Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow is on the hook for $60 million in repayments to the Ohio Department of Education for over-charges related to inflating student attendance data. “Improperly enrolling students, forging signatures on student applications to increase enrollment numbers […]

Gaming graduation rates

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By: Tonya Mead, CFE, CHFI, PI, MBA,MA Educational Psychology The Office of Inspector General is auditing the four year graduation rate of students attending public secondary schools in Alabama and California. In previous years the student graduation rates of Washington State and South Dakota were audited. Innocent school level data-related errors were cited by the […]

Fake research and fake news

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| Data Forensics, Ethics and Corruption, Falsified Research, Fraud in Education

By: Tonya Mead, CFE, CHFI, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology There has been such an uproar about fake news surfacing on the internet, television and radio. Some wonder whether anything we can’t see, hear, taste or touch for ourselves is really real. Now it looks like we may need to add fake research to our […]

Fraud and data tampering in schools

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By: Tonya Mead, CFE, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology The Maryland State Board of Education is investigating a whistleblower complaint alleging the alteration of student grades and credits for the purpose of misrepresenting graduation rates. This is not a new phenomenon. School employees as well as students manipulate grades to increase GPAs, graduate, pass a […]

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