New Rochelle Board of Education President Jeffrey Hastie sent a letter to New York State Education Department Commissioner of Education MaryEllen Elia on December 12, 2018 in which he does not accurately state the circumstances of the hiring of T&M Protection Resources, LLC, the nature of the investigation by T&M or the role played by the test integrity unit where the report was sent. In the letter, Hastie attributes the investigation to New Rochelle High School teacher Anthony Stirpe sending a packet of documents to then Superintendent of Schools Dr. Brian Osborne which Hastie claimed identified "improper practices relating to our online credit recovery system, Apex Learning."