The most frequent categories of substantiated investigations involving the city Department of Education in 2025 involved employee misconduct, theft of service, falsification of official documents and inappropriate or sexual relationships or communications, per a new report from Special Commissioner of Investigation for the New York City School District Anastasia Coleman.
Coleman’s report highlights efforts to uncover corruption, protect students and safeguard taxpayer dollars.
The SCI received 11,775 complaints last year, alleging fraud, criminal activity, financial misconduct and abuse involving the DOE, which serves more than one million students and employs more than 40,000 staffers…