CDE Missing Background Checks For Hundreds Of Teachers

By Mark Ackerman
DENVER (CBS4)– The Colorado Department of Education has contacted roughly 1,900 veteran teachers and asked them to resubmit their fingerprints. A 2015 federal audit found thousands of teacher files were missing the mandated fingerprints and background checks.
In a statement, CDE says the “reason the records went missing is unknown” but says something likely went wrong in 2004 when the state law requiring background checks was updated.
CDE estimates 3,000 active