SOUTH BEND — The South Bend schools audit from the Indiana State Board of Accounts did not include an investigation of grade-changing allegations, school board leadership says.
During a school board meeting on Monday, Feb. 9, board attorney Pete Agostino told attendees that district leaders met with the state board last Thursday, and the audit report will be made public in the near future. But until then, or until the attorney general’s office takes any action, if it decides to, they are prohibited from disclosing any details of findings, he said.
Because the audit goes through June 2023, it’s likely to include information from former Superintendent Todd Cummings’ tenure, well before the board replaced him in February 2025. The outside investigators the board hired in early 2025 have already reported widespread instances of alleged grade manipulation during Cummings’ superintendency, but in a text to The Tribune, board Vice President Carlos Leyva said that the “grade changing investigation was not part of the state board of accounts [sic] investigation.”
“As a district we have moved on and there’s no longer active grade changing investigation,” Leyva said in the text. “Systems have been put in place to prevent grade changing misconduct.”
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Reporting by Rayleigh Deaton, South Bend Tribune / South Bend Tribune
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