Department of Education

Both the Department and FSA received unqualified (clean) opinions on their FY 2012 and FY 2011 financial statements. However, the audit reports noted a material weakness in internal control surrounding the Department’s Debt Management Collection System and ACS Education Servicing System—the legacy...

Our FY 2012 Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA) review found that the Department had made progress in addressing issues identified in previous FISMA reviews. Specifically, it was compliant in 3 of the 11 reporting metrics: continuous monitoring, contractor systems, and...

Our review of Recovery Act expenditures at two LEAs—the El Dorado School District and the Little Rock School District—found that the LEAs generally obligated and spent stimulus funds in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, guidance, and program requirements. However, we did identify areas...

We reported on how LEAs that received increased IDEA funds through the Recovery Act exercised IDEA’s maintenance of effort (MOE) flexibility provision. MOE flexibility permits an eligible LEA to reduce the level of local expenditures for the education of children with disabilities by up to 50...

Our audit concluded that the required financial statements submitted to the Department by proprietary schools generally do not include transparent information about the schools’ use of Title IV funds sufficient to allow FSA to make informed decisions about program effectiveness. Our review of the FY...

We performed our audit work at the Michigan Department of Education, Detroit Public Schools (Detroit), Cesar Chavez Academy, and the School District of the City of Inkster. We found that although the Michigan Department of Education performed some internal control activities and on-site monitoring...

We evaluated Arkansas State University’s (ASU) loan default prevention and management, the accuracy of selected information ASU reported to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), its quantitative satisfactory academic progress measures, and the accuracy of selected consumer...

We determined that the El Paso Independent School District, Bowie High School, and Coronado High School Adequate Yearly Progress results for 2009, 2010, and 2011, and the graduation rate data used for the 2009 and 2012 Adequate Yearly Progress calculations cannot be relied on because not all...

We performed our audit work at the Texas Education Agency (TEA), La Joya Independent School District (La Joya), Lufkin Independent School District, and Marion Independent School District. We determined that both the TEA and La Joya need to improve their systems of internal controls. We found that...

We found that the Puerto Rico Department of Education (PRDE) generally obligated and spent Recovery Act funds in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, guidance, and program requirements. However, we found that PRDE did not follow proper procurement procedures when using Recovery Act funds to...