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Our audit sought to determine whether the Department’s OESE complied with applicable laws, regulations, and guidance for selecting recipients to be awarded discretionary grants and whether OESE had sufficient internal controls to ensure that its review process resulted in a fair and objective competition. We reviewed OESE’s three largest discretionary grant programs: Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy, Impact Aid School Construction—Recovery Act, and Grants for Enhanced Assessment Instruments. We concluded that for these grant programs, OESE complied with applicable laws, regulations, and guidance when selecting recipients to be awarded discretionary grants, and internal controls were sufficient to ensure a fair and objective competition. However, we noted some improvements were needed in the retention of required documentation and suggested that OESE ensure that program offices maintain documentation to demonstrate that they followed proper procedures.
Audit of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services Hiring Recovery Program Grant Awarded to the Manteca Police Department, Manteca, California