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Office of Inspector General, US Department of Education, 2025
Congress enacted section 117 of the Higher Education Act, as amended, (Section 117) mandating financial transparency of institutions of higher education (institution) through required reporting of gifts from and contracts with a foreign source. Applicable institutions must file a disclosure report by one of the two annual reporting deadlines,…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Student Financial Aid, Federal Legislation, Higher Education
Office of Inspector General, US Department of Education, 2025
The Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, requires the U.S. Department of Education (Department) to provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified employees with disabilities unless doing so poses an undue hardship. The objective of the Office of Inspector General (OIG) inspection was to review the Department's administration of its…
Descriptors: Public Agencies, Departments, Inspection, Federal Programs
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Honey, Margaret A., Ed.; Dibner, Kenne A., Ed.; Taylor, Tiffany E., Ed. – National Academies Press, 2020
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is one of the United States' leading federal science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) agencies and plays an important role in the landscape of STEM education. In 2015, NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) created the Science Activation (SciAct) program to increase the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Science Education, Educational Objectives, Scientific Literacy
Office of Inspector General, US Department of Education, 2024
The Government Performance and Results Modernization Act of 2010 defines major management challenges as programs or management functions that are vulnerable to waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement, and where a failure to perform well could seriously affect the ability of the U.S. Department of Education (Department) to achieve its mission or…
Descriptors: Program Administration, Public Agencies, Federal Government, Audits (Verification)
Nowicki, Jacqueline – US Government Accountability Office, 2019
The U.S. Department of Education (Education) plays a key role in supporting educational opportunities for K-12 students, including awarding grants and overseeing compliance with federal education laws. Over the past decade, Education's grant awards have generally increased in number and size. Using Education budget data, it was determined that in…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Program Evaluation, Federal Programs, Public Agencies
Office of Inspector General, US Department of Education, 2021
The objective of this inspection was to describe Federal Student Aid's (FSA) control activities over institutional processes for completing verification and reporting verification results in accordance with Federal requirements. The inspection covered award years 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 (July 1, 2016, through June 30, 2018). It was found that FSA…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Audits (Verification), Public Agencies, Compliance (Legal)
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Brenner, Devon – Rural Educator, 2019
This policy brief summarizes and critiques the findings of the US Department of Education's Section 5005 Report on Rural Education. In September of 2018, the Department of Education released the "Section 5005 Report on Rural Education: Final Report." The report was written in response to a provision of the Every Student Succeeds Act of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Rural Education
Office of Inspector General, US Department of Education, 2020
This management information report provides the Office of Inspector General's (OIG) perspective on challenges the U.S. Department of Education (Department) may face as it implements and oversees the Coronavirus, Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. In preparing this report, audit work performed by OIG and the Government Accountability…
Descriptors: Pandemics, Federal Aid, COVID-19, Federal Legislation
Gaines, Alexandra Cawthorne; Bonino-Britsch, Michael; Matthews, Hannah – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2019
This brief explores the lessons learned from the 2016 Parents and Children Thriving Together: Two-Generation State Policy Network (PACTT Network), a collaboration between the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP). Through this initiative, five states explored how to use the two-generation approach to…
Descriptors: Family Programs, State Policy, Access to Education, Child Care
Office of Inspector General, US Department of Education, 2020
According to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended (ESEA), a State wanting to receive Federal funds must submit a plan indicating which of nine programs it wants to receive funds for. This is the final report on the results of the audit of the U.S. Department of Education's processes for reviewing and approving State plans…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Public Agencies, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Carolyn D. Gorman – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2024
The focus of this report is on mental health interventions delivered in K-12 neighborhood public schools. A vast array of commercially available programs, conceptual frameworks, and approaches to school-based mental health are not unanimously recommended, applied, or agreed upon. This poses a challenge to any comprehensive description or…
Descriptors: Mental Health, School Health Services, Mental Disorders, Therapy
Emrey-Arras, Melissa – US Government Accountability Office, 2016
Education programs in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields are intended to enhance the nation's global competitiveness. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported in 2012 that there were more than 200 federal STEM education programs in fiscal year 2010. Since then, this portfolio of programs has changed. GAO was…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Federal Programs, Federal Aid, Educational Finance
Humphrey, Daniel C.; O'Day, Jennifer – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2019
California's new Statewide System of Support is grounded in the fundamental principles of the Local Control Funding Formula, especially its emphasis on the central role of local educators in determining the best approaches to improvement. This report examines the early implementation of the System of Support, with a focus on the work of the county…
Descriptors: State Programs, Funding Formulas, Program Implementation, School Districts
Office of Inspector General, US Department of Education, 2018
The objective of the audit presented in this report was to evaluate the Office of Special Education Programs' (OSEP) implementation of its differentiated monitoring and support component under the results driven accountability initiative. The audit covered differentiated monitoring and support (DMS) that OSEP conducted under Part B of the…
Descriptors: Public Agencies, Federal Government, Federal Programs, Special Education
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Grantee Submission, 2019
The foster youth education program strives to increase graduation rates by improving academic performance and encouraging student retention through an innovative collaboration between tutors, social workers, and schools to provide individualized support. The pilot program was funded by U.S. Department of Education Innovation Funds, which evolving…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Graduation Rate, Academic Persistence, Program Evaluation
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