New York City: Investigators probed only 11 of 880 academic fraud complaints in last few years

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    City investigators probed only 11 of 880 academic fraud complaints in last few years

    The city investigator charged with rooting out corruption in public schools fielded 880 allegations of academic fraud in the last three years, but probed less than a dozen, The Post has learned. The Special Commissioner of Investigation for city schools told The Post the agency probed only 11 complaints such as test-tampering and grade-fixing between Dec. 6, 2016 and Nov. 21, 2019 — or 1 percent of the total. SCI substantiated one of the 11 cases it looked into — a Bronx teacher giving Regents exam questions to a student who shared them on Facebook. The SCI, which is independent ...


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