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Toledo Public Schools are being investigated by the Ohio Department of Education to see if they have violated state laws.

According to the Toledo Blade, the district manipulated some students' attendance records in order to improve the report card scores of the state. Once Superintendent Jerome Pecko admitted last week that schools withdrew and then re-enrolled chronically absent students to erase their poor attendance records, an investigation began.

Ohio School Districts are allowed to get rid of the test scores of students who are not continuously enrolled from October through the testing dates in the spring.

If it is found that Toledo Public Schools did violate state law, it could result in serious sanctions against those found to have been involved.