Department of Education

Summary of accomplishments and activities the U.S. Department of Education OIG completed from April 1, 2020, through September 30, 2020

We determined that PA Education generally had sufficient internal controls to ensure that LEAs developed IEPs in accordance with Federal and State requirements for children with disabilities who attend virtual charter schools and that these students were provided with the services described in their...

San Antonio did not have effective controls to ensure that it reported complete and accurate Clery Act crime statistics. San Antonio had processes for requesting crime statistics from local law enforcement agencies, identifying campus security authorities (CSA), processing and compiling the crime...

Although the Department had several notable improvements in implementing its cybersecurity initiatives, its overall IT security programs and practices were not effective in all of the five security functions. We had findings in all eight metric domains, which included findings with the same or...

The Department designed policies and procedures for awarding and monitoring discretionary grants through its Discretionary Grant Handbook. Additionally, the Department designed risk mitigation strategies specific to the Defraying Costs and Emergency Assistance programs through the Internal Control...

The Department designed its review and approval processes to provide reasonable assurance that it would identify and resolve potential instances of State plans’ noncompliance with the ESEA and McKinney-Vento Act requirements subjected to peer review. The Department also designed the review and...

We found that the Department is in compliance with the applicable requirements outlined under section 759(a) of the Geospatial Data Act. Specifically, we found that the Department implemented all 10 of the 13 covered agency responsibilities listed in Section 759(a) of the Geospatial Data Act that we...

We found that Florida established and implemented systems of internal control thatprovided reasonable assurance that Restart program funds were allocated appropriatelyand sufficiently ensured that LEAs and nonpublic schools used Restart program funds forallowable and intended purposes, as described...

The objective of our audit was to determine whether the University of North Georgia (North Georgia) had controls to ensure that it reported complete and accurate campus crime statistics under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act). North...

This management information report provides the Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) perspective on challenges the U.S. Department of Education (Department) may face as it implements and oversees the Coronavirus, Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. In preparing this report, we reviewed...