Department of Education

Our audit found the Personnel Development to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities Program (PDP) results reported by the Department’s Office of Special Education Programs to be encouraging; however, data limitations and quality issues limited stakeholders’ ability to assess PDP...

The auditors found that the Department’s FY 2014 Closing Package Financial Statements were presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. The report noted the issues identified in the Department’s and FSA’s financial statements and the need for the Department and FSA to...

For FY 2014, both the Department and FSA received an unmodified (clean) opinion on their financial statements; however, the financial statement auditors identified one significant deficiency in internal control over financial reporting and one instance of reportable noncompliance. The significant...

For FY 2014, both the Department and FSA received an unmodified (clean) opinion on their financial statements; however, the financial statement auditors identified one significant deficiency in internal control over financial reporting and one instance of reportable noncompliance. The significant...

Our FY 2014 review found that the Department’s information technology security program generally complied with FISMA and related Office of Management and Budget information security standards and that the Department had made progress in strengthening its information security program; however, many...

We found that the Department did not have a comprehensive plan or strategy to prevent student loan default, and thus could not ensure various Department offices’ efforts were coordinated and consistent. We also found that the roles and responsibilities of the offices and personnel tasked with...

Our audit to determine whether FSA had controls in place to ensure that students who had met or exceeded the Pell grant lifetime eligibility limit did not receive additional Pell grants found that FSA had those controls in place. We found no errors when testing the accuracy of the Lifetime...

We concluded that the Higher Learning Commission did not establish a system of internal control that provided reasonable assurance that schools’ classifications of delivery methods and measurements of student learning for competency-based education programs, including direct assessment programs...

We found that SOLEX College did not disburse Title IV funds only to eligible students enrolled in Title IV-eligible programs. We found that SOLEX College’s two English as a second language programs were not Title IV-eligible programs because SOLEX College did not admit only students who needed...

We found that the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction could improve its administration of its Race to the Top grant by strengthening its system of internal control over contracting and by more closely monitoring the fiscal activity of participating local educational agencies and charter...