#education-oversight

#education-oversight

When the pandemic began, DESE explained in the audit, DCF stopped receiving paper copy records. "A breakdown in communication between DESE and DCF began in February 2020 and continued undetected for 41 months, which included the entire audit period," the audit said. "As a result, potentially serious and substantiated findings of child abuse or neglect, possibly involving licensed educators, remain unexamined and unaddressed."