The Head Start program is the largest Federal investment in early childhood education. The Improving Head Start for School Readiness Act of 2007 required ACF to begin awarding 5-year grants for Head Start and to require grantees that ACF determines are not providing a high-quality and comprehensive Head Start program to "recompete"-i.e., to participate in open competition for funding renewal. In response, ACF began in 2012 to implement the Designation Renewal System (DRS). The DRS uses seven "trigger conditions" to assess a subset of grantees (known as a cohort) each year and determine which grantees will be required to recompete. These changes are intended to improve the quality of grantees receiving Head Start funds. However, stakeholders have raised concerns about the efficacy and fairness of this process.
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Department of Health & Human Services | Head Start Grant Recompetition: Early Implementation Results Suggest Opportunities for Improvement | Inspection / Evaluation | Agency-Wide | View Report | |
Internal Revenue Service | Actions Can Be Taken to Better Address Potential Noncompliance for Roth Individual Retirement Arrangement Conversions | Audit | Agency-Wide | View Report | |
Internal Revenue Service | The Whistleblower Program Helps to Identify Tax Noncompliance; However, Improvements Are Needed to Ensure That Claims Are Processed Appropriately and Expeditiously | Audit | Agency-Wide | View Report | |
Internal Revenue Service | The Affordable Care Act Case Management System Release 1.0 | Audit | Agency-Wide | View Report | |
Internal Revenue Service | The Office of Appeals Has Improved Compliance Within the Collection Due Process | Audit | Agency-Wide | View Report | |
Internal Revenue Service | Cybersecurity Act of 2015: Report on the Information Security Management Practices of the Internal Revenue Service | Audit | Agency-Wide | View Report | |
Department of Health & Human Services | Ohio Made Incorrect Medicaid Electronic Health Record Incentive Payments | Audit |
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U.S. Postal Service | 2015 Peak Season Package Processing Performance | Audit | Agency-Wide | View Report | |
Department of the Treasury | Treasury DO’s Office of Minority and Women Inclusion is Generally Carrying Out Its Functions Consistent With Dodd-Frank Act | Audit | Agency-Wide | View Report | |
Department of Defense | DoD Officials Did Not Take Appropriate Action When Notified of Potential Travel Card Misuse at Casinos and Adult Entertainment Establishments | Audit | Agency-Wide | View Report | |