Department of Education

The objectives of our audit were to determine whether the University of Southern California (1) applied and documented its use of professional judgment, including dependency override, in accordance with sections 479A and 480(d) of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended and (2) reported its use...

The initial objective of our audit was to determine whether the Department had a process for handling embargoed regulations and protocols related to the protection of sensitive information for Department staff involved in the negotiated rulemaking process. A few months into our fieldwork, we...

Our objective was to describe the extent to which the Federal Student Aid office (FSA) identifies individuals who belong to underserved communities and performs outreach to those identified individuals. We found that FSA provided general outreach to individuals, some of whom were part of underserved...

The objective of our audit was to determine whether the Department designed and implemented processes that provided reasonable assurance that Charter Schools Program Grants to Charter Management Organizations for the Replication and Expansion of High-Quality Charter Schools (Replication and...

We found that as of November 30, 2022, FSA obligated nearly 100 percent of the $161.1 million in appropriations it received for pandemic assistance student aid administration funds. Nine FSA business units obligated approximately $157.8 million (98 percent) of the total pandemic assistance student...

The objective of this statutory audit was to determine whether the Department complied with the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 (PIIA) for FY 2022. We found that the Department did not comply with the PIIA because it did not meet one of the six compliance requirements. Specifically, the...

This letter advises of the closure of the audit of the U.S. Department of Education’s enforcement of entities’ compliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974.

We found, based on our review of samples of approved and rejected TPD discharge applications, that FSA appropriately approved and rejected the applications. We determined that FSA applied appropriate criteria to approve and reject individual TPD discharge applications in accordance with Federal...

We found that Ohio 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 IEPs. These...

FY 2022 Management Challenges Facing the U.S. Department of Education