Payroll scandal haunts D.C.’s special education office

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Supervisors in the District of Columbia’s troubled special education office continued signing time sheets for their ex-employees long after they left, costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars, school records and e-mails obtained by The Examiner show.

According to records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, five ex-employees — three teachers, a teacher’s aide and a special education executive — were each paid for at least a month after they left the office.

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