August 30th, 2012

Columbus Dispatch, August 30th - scandal-claims-a-casualty

August 29th, 2012

Columbus Dispatch, August 29th - columbus-school-board-talks-ethics-in-secret

August 28th, 2012

Toledo Blade Editorial, August 28th - Honest-school-numbers

August 26th, 2012

Before school report cards, ODE as a friend was a fine role. But once they got into the school rating business, they should have realized that there needed to be an audit system for the data the districts are submitting. This will cost more money and take more staff, which will have the state leaders gnashing their teeth. If ODE proposes to have a oversight role without increasing budget or staff, watch it fail!

Columbus Dispatch, August 26th - state-agency-may-request-tighter-reins-on-schools

August 25, 2012 - Bad, Gene, Bad!

Columbus Dispatch, August 25 - district-tried-to-buy-off-auditor

August 24, 2012

Having log in issues with the Dispatch (sigh....)

So, from the Toledo Blade - Report-says-state-knew-of-TPS-practice-on-attendance

Found this article Cincinnati Enquirer - Schools-offer-additional-data

Cincinnati Enquirer, August 23 - Lockland-fires-superintendent

The Dispatch log in is working again...

Columbus Dispatch, August 23rd - ccs-audit-aug.-23

Columbus Dispatch, August 24th - toledo-schools-defend-policy-on-data

Columbus Dispatch, August 24th - superintendent-son-fired-in-data-scrubbing-scandal

August 22, 2012

$100,000.00 dollars to hire lawyers to "investigate" the data rigging?  Hire me, I will do for 1/2 the cost in 1/2 the time!

The lawyers aren't there to investigate the data rigging, they are there for damage control. The guilty parties are going to have to "schooled" in how to respond to the State investigators questions.

Back when Jennifer and I lived in the CCS District (2005), we paid about 2200.00 a year in property taxes.  So Gene Harris is willing to part with 45 YEARS of property tax revenue to help her and Steve Tankovitch out of the pit they engineered.  What a waste of tax revenue!

Columbus Dispatch, August 22 - columbus-schools-hire-lawyers-in-attendance-probe

Columbus Dispatch editorial - sort-it-out

August 21, 2012

Columbus Dispatch, August 21 - data-chaos-delays-report-cards-on-schools

August 20th, 2012

Columbus Dispatch, August 20th - state-report-cards-delayed

August 19th, 2012 - Try the BIG Lie!

Columbus Dispatch, front page.  Gene is trying to spin the numbers - is this what Tankovitch has been up to?  When a person in hot water starts using percentages, you know the BIG Lie has been launched.

Columbus Dispatch, August 19th - deleted-absences-7-of-all-records

Columbus Dispatch, August 19th - The Inside Story harris-aims-criticism-at-wrong-target

August 18th, 2012

Columbus Dispatch, August 18th Front Page again!

Columbus Dispatch, August 18th - scandal-may-delay-report-cards

Columbus Dispatch, August 18th - schools-asked-to-self-report-data-scrubbing

Dispatch Editorial - image-makeover

August 17th, 2012

Columbus Dispatch, August 15th - districts-image-worries-columbus-school-board

Columbus Dispatch, August 17th - policy-puts-it-all-on-harris

Columbus Dispatch, August 17th - Come-clean-state-auditor-tells-school-districts

August 5th, 2012

Columbus Dispatch - schools-rigging-was-on-the-wall

August 7th, 2012

Columbus Dispatch - August 7th columbus-school-board-waives-attorney-client-privilege

Columbus Dispatch - August 7th there-is-no-way-i-would-condone-this

Columbus Dispatch - August 7th columbus-districts-grade-slips

August 11, 2012

I have been away for week, so I am going to have to catch up with things.  Also having trouble logging into my Columbus Dispatch online, so I cannot GET caught up.

I found this article in the Saturday paper.

and this in the Toledo Blade

August 3, 2012

Man, this just rolls along.  Now Jill Dannemiller's name is mentioned!  She is one of the best people I ever worked with.  While working for ODE in 2004, it seems she was called in to investigate a rumor / anonymous letter that data changes were being made.   The story says Gene Harris stopped the former Internal Auditor, Tina Abdella, from performing an investigation and asked ODE instead.  


It is ALWAYS more difficult for an outsider to find chicanery than internal people!  And if had ever met Steve Tankovitch in a non-professional situation, well he is one slick character!   I am not surprised Jill gave the district a pass on good policies and procedures.   The irony that after Jill was hired as CCS Director of Title One services, she turned into one of Steve's foes in the district, due to his antics with data "cleansing" and the difficulties that caused her and the reporting she had do as part of her job.


Columbus Dispatch - columbus-schools-accused-of-axing-audit

I posted this in Facebook today

Cincinnati Enquirer - Attorney-Lockland-superintendent-didn-t-cheat?

Columbus Dispatch - "Your Right to Know"  - auditor

August 2, 2012

Whoa - this appeared on Dispatch website late August 2.

Columbus Dispatch article - democrats-want-to-view-school-attendance-investigation


OK, what the hell is Redfern up to now?  This is not a political issue!  The ODE investigation has just begun, there is nothing a records request would accomplish.

Columbus Dispatch Editorial - improve-the-system

August 1, 2012

August 1, Columbus Dispatch - police-officer-stashed-school-attendance-records

From Media Trackers - columbus-city-schools-auditor-claims-administrators-interfering-with-records-probe