Department of Education

The objective of our review is to describe how selected local educational agencies (LEA) allocated Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds provided under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act).As of March 2022, the 46 LEAs spent over $19.2 million...

The objectives of the audit were to determine whether the State of Michigan (Michigan) designed and implemented awarding processes that ensured that the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Fund (GEER grant) was used to support local educational agencies (LEAs) and institutions of higher education...

The objectives of the audit were to determine whether the State of Oklahoma (Oklahoma) designed and implemented awarding processes that ensured that the Governor's Emergency Education Relief Fund (GEER grant) was used to support local educational agencies (LEA) and institutions of higher education...

Our objective was to assess the U.S. Department of Education’s (Department) progress at improving the maturity of its security program and practices as required by the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA).We made 77 recommendations to improve the Department's cybersecurity...

The objective of our audit was to determine whether the California Department of Education (California) appropriately allocated Immediate Aid to Restart School Operations (Restart) program funds and ensured that local educational agencies (LEA) and nonpublic schools used Restart program funds for...

The objectives of our audit were to determine whether the Puerto Rico Department of Education (Puerto Rico DOE) provided accurate and complete displaced student count data to the U.S. Department of Education (Department) and appropriately accounted for Temporary Emergency Impact Aid for Displaced...

The objective of our audit was to determine whether the U.S. Department of Education complied with the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 (PIIA) for fiscal year (FY) 2021.The Department did not comply with the PIIA because it did not meet one of the six compliance requirements. The Department...

ED OIG Semiannual Report 58 Final 508

ED OIG Semiannual Report 65 Final 508

ED OIG Semiannual Report 64 Final 508