Department of Education

We noted that the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s oversight of LEA single audit resolution was notsufficient to ensure that LEAs took timely and appropriate corrective action. We found that in many cases the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary...

We found that the California Department of Education did not adequately monitor the LEAs in our review to ensure that the LEAs had sufficient fiscal controls for obligating and paying Federal funds to School Improvement Grants contractors. Our review further identified more than $121,000 in...

We found that the California Department of Rehabilitation did not have adequate data quality controls to ensure that information it reported to Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) was accurate, complete, and adequately supported. Specific control weaknesses we identified were (1) lack of an...

We found that although the Department took actions to ensure the completeness and reasonableness of the data it reported, it needs to improve controls to support the accuracy of data that SEAs reported. Specifically, we determined that the Department could provide better oversight, including both...

Our audit found that the Western Association of Schools and Colleges Senior College and University Commission’s (Commission) control activities did not provide reasonable assurance that schools properly classified the methods of delivery for competency-based education programs. As a result, the...

We concluded that the Department had developed and implemented control activities that provided reasonable assurance that States submitted reliable Perkins IV program performance data to the Department. We also reported that the Department had developed and implemented control activities that...

We found that the Tennessee Department of Education did not ensure that the Achievement School District developed and implemented adequate internal control activities over retaining documentation, contracting, approving purchases, using credit cards, recording adjusting journal entries, and...

We found that FSA does not have sufficient oversight of IT projects to provide assurance that its Lifecycle Management Methodology process is appropriately implemented. FSA does not have an accountability mechanism and, as a result, it did not always conduct required technical and management reviews...

We found that the Department did not comply with the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act because its FY 2015 improper payment rate did not meet the reduction target for the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan (Direct Loan) program. The Department established an FY 2015 reduction target of...

During the course of our fieldwork, we learned of two FSA initiatives that pertain to identifying and addressing misrepresentation by schools. FSA is in the process of implementing a new student complaints tracking system, called Enterprise, and a Student Aid Enforcement Unit. One of the four...