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[h=4]Nation's disciplined teacher data to be audited state by state[/h]A state-by-state audit of the nation’s only database for tracking teacher misconduct is being ordered in the wake of a USA TODAY NETWORK investigation that found thousands of missing names in the listing of troublesome educators.

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A USA TODAY NETWORK INVESTIGATION: The U.S. government does not maintain a national database listing all teachers who permanently lost their licenses. Ramon Padilla and Berna Elibuyuk, USA TODAY.


Phillip Rogers, executive director of the private organization that runs the nation's only database of disciplined teachers.(Photo: KUSA)


A state-by-state audit of the nation’s only database for tracking teacher misconduct is being ordered in the wake of a USA TODAY NETWORK investigation that found thousands of missing names in the listing of troublesome educators.
Education agencies in every state voluntarily report to a privately run<span style="color: Red;">*</span>database operated by the non-profit National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification when<span style="color: Red;">*</span>they take a disciplinary action against a teacher for anything from minor infractions to serious cases of physical or sexual abuse.
However, the USA TODAY NETWORK’s examination of records about<span style="color: Red;">*</span>teachers disciplined in all 50 states found more than 1,400 cases where a teacher permanently lost his or her license<span style="color: Red;">*</span>but was not listed in the NASDTEC database — potentially allowing teachers to flee instances of misconduct by moving to new states.
NASDTEC executive director Phillip Rogers said Monday that education agencies in every state<span style="color: Red;">*</span>will be required by his organization to audit all of their submissions to the data since they joined the system to ensure their submissions are accurate and complete.
The state-by-state audits, Rogers said, are being required in the interest of “trying to address what you guys (the USA TODAY NETWORK) found on the number of cases that were not entered that should have been entered.”
Rogers said the directive for the state audits is expected within the next 10 days, and several states have already undertaken reviews of their data on their own accord. As part of the changes, he said, states will be required to validate that <span style="color: Red;">*</span>submissions are accurate and complete before sending them to the national database.
“The purpose for that is (to verify) that they are checking the spelling, checking the numbers, checking all of the information as being accurate,” Rogers said. “I guess people get in a hurry or whatever. So we’ll have to make sure.”
Measures also are being taken at the state and local level to address problems identified by the USA TODAY NETWORK investigation.
USA TODAY
Broken discipline tracking systems lets teachers flee troubled pasts




“This is simple,” Delaware Sen. Ernesto Lopez said in a statement Monday. “Parents have a right to know, especially when, according to The News Journal, ‘Most of the cases … involve physical aggression or sexual misconduct.’ It is critical that we remove these teachers from the classroom, but equally critical that we are fully transparent with the parents of children who interacted with these teachers.”
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Why the U.S. government doesn't have a teacher discipline database




While teachers accused of misconduct account for a very small minority of the millions of educators nationwide, many public officials have pushed for more transparency<span style="color: Red;">*</span>between states and with the public in teacher discipline cases.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>There have been several<span style="color: Red;">*</span>efforts by<span style="color: Red;">*</span>federal lawmakers in recent years<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to require that the U.S. Department of Education maintain a centralized, national database of teachers found to have engaged in the most serious type of misconduct, but the proposals have not moved forward and NASDTEC is the system used by states to share information with one another.
Some state legislators say stronger measures are needed to look into the histories of teachers beyond state boundaries.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Iowa Representative Megan Jones said she believes the state should require nationwide background checks for all school employees.
“When it comes to something like this,” she said, “the lines that create our state are arbitrary.”
Contributing: Matthew Albright and Saranac Hale Spencer at The News Journal in Wilmington, Del.;<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Jason Clayworth at The Des Moines Register; Rebecca Lindstrom at WXIA in Atlanta.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
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