Five years on, cases linger in Columbus schools data cheating scandal

Five years after The Dispatch first revealed that Columbus City Schools administrators were retroactively altering thousands of student-attendance records at the end of each school year, the Ohio Department of Education says it has disciplined just 16 of the 64 administrators the state auditor suspected of falsifying data. Now, state Auditor Dave Yost believes the clock on the department carrying out its duties has run out.