Puerto Rico Department of Education’s Administration of the Temporary Emergency Impact Aid for Displaced Students Program

Submitting OIG:

Department of Education OIG

Report Description:

The objectives of our audit were to determine whether the Puerto Rico Department of Education (Puerto Rico DOE) provided accurate and complete displaced student count data to the U.S. Department of Education (Department) and appropriately accounted for Temporary Emergency Impact Aid for Displaced Students (Emergency Impact Aid) program funds in accordance with Federal guidelines. In our displaced student count testing, we determined that the Puerto Rico DOE reported inaccurate and unsupported displaced student count data to the Department for school year 2017–2018. We also determined that the Puerto Rico DOE generally accounted for Emergency Impact Aid program funds in accordance with Federal guidelines.

Date Issued:

Monday, July 11, 2022

Agency Reviewed / Investigated:

Department of Education

Submitting OIG-Specific Report Number:

A19GA0003

Component, if applicable:

Office of Elementary and Secondary Education

Location(s):

Agency-Wide

Type of Report:

Audit

Questioned Costs:

Funds for Better Use:

Number of Recommendations:

View Document:

Attachment	Size
Puerto-Rico-Department-Education’s-Administration-Temporary-Emergency-Impact-Aid-Displaced-Students.pdf	15.72 MB

Additional Details Link:

https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oig/auditreports/fy2022/a19ga0003.pdf

Related Open Recommendations

Recommendation Number	Recommendation Status	Significant Recommendation
1.1	Open	Yes
Develop and implement internal controls to ensure that officials and staff responsible for gathering data used for Federal reporting requirements obtain an understanding of the rules and regulations surrounding the grant programs they are tasked with overseeing.
1.2	Open	Yes
Develop and implement effective written policies and procedures and sufficient information system controls to ensure that accurate student enrollment and withdrawal data are entered in its student information system in a consistent manner.
1.3	Open	Yes
Provide support for the inaccurate and unsupported displaced student counts or return $6.5 million in Emergency Impact Aid program funds received based on estimated inaccurate and unsupported displaced student counts.

Recommendation Number

Recommendation Status

Significant Recommendation

Additional Details

1.1

Open

Yes

Develop and implement internal controls to ensure that officials and staff responsible for gathering data used for Federal reporting requirements obtain an understanding of the rules and regulations surrounding the grant programs they are tasked with overseeing.

1.2

Open

Yes

Develop and implement effective written policies and procedures and sufficient information system controls to ensure that accurate student enrollment and withdrawal data are entered in its student information system in a consistent manner.