An Ohio Department of Education staffer responsible for making site visits to 128 preschools to conduct safety inspections falsified reports and failed to make site visits. A department spokesperson says the department is “unable to determine” how many schools were not inspected.
The problem came to light about a week ago when a department contractor went to a site to conduct an inspection and was told by the preschool that it received a previous renewal without undergoing a site visit.
The department stripped the employee in question of all responsibilities, but she is still being paid as an investigation continues, [Ohio Department of Education spokesperson John Charlton] said. The department referred the incident to the Ohio State Highway Patrol and the inspector general, he said.
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