(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s top education official has claimed that a story about how her department conducts investigations is inaccurate and demanded a public correction on an article claiming that the Department of Public Instruction has hidden its investigation into 200 cases of sexual misconduct and grooming from school staff.

“The reporting is not only incomplete and misleading – it is dangerously irresponsible,” Superintendent Jill Underly wrote. “It distorts the nature of the DPI's work in this area, omits crucial legal and procedural facts, and undermines public trust in the very systems designed to protect Wisconsin students.”

The story claimed that 200 investigations from 2018 to 2023 into teachers for sexual misconduct and grooming were shielded from the public.

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