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Department of Education: Preliminary Results Show Strong Leadership Needed to Address Serious Student Aid System Weaknesses

GAO-24-107783
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5 Open Recommendations
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Department of Education The Secretary of Education should direct the Chief Operating Officer of FSA to expeditiously (1) develop an FSA policy on standards for IV&V independence and (2) ensure that FPS IV&V agents meet those standards. In developing the policy, FSA should define the degree of technical, managerial, and financial independence required of the personnel or agents performing IV&V. (Recommendation 3)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of Education The Secretary of Education should direct the Chief Operating Officer of FSA to (1) expeditiously develop a plan that tailors the agency's guidance on identifying and managing requirements to fit its current incremental deployment approach and (2) implement the plan thereafter. (Recommendation 1)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of Education The Secretary of Education should expeditiously (1) assess the role of the department's and FSA's CIOs in the continuing development of FPS, and (2) based on that assessment, develop and implement a plan for providing the department's CIO with a significant role in the governance and oversight of FPS while clarifying the responsibilities between the departmental and agency CIO. (Recommendation 6)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of Education The Secretary of Education should direct the Chief Operating Officer of FSA to expeditiously (1) develop an FSA policy requiring that projects determine and document the appropriate scope of IV&V efforts and (2) ensure that the FPS project follows this policy. In developing the policy, FSA should require that projects consider IV&V activities across the acquisition lifecycle. (Recommendation 4)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.
Department of Education The Secretary of Education should direct the Chief Operating Officer of FSA to (1) expeditiously develop a plan that tailors the agency's guidance on system testing to fit its current incremental deployment approach and (2) implement the plan thereafter. (Recommendation 2)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

Child Care Accessibility: Agencies Can Further Coordinate to Better Serve Families with Disabilities

GAO-24-106843
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1 Open Recommendations
Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Department of Education The Secretary of Education should further coordinate with the Department of Health and Human Services to leverage existing and planned information-sharing mechanisms to more fully promote Parent Training and Information Centers and other resources designed to help parents of children with disabilities with HHS's state and local child care partners. (Recommendation 2)
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Education agreed with this recommendation. The agency said it would coordinate with HHS in making resources from Parent Training and Information Centers available to HHS's state and local child care partners. We will monitor the progress of these efforts.

Cloud Computing: Agencies Need to Address Key OMB Procurement Requirements

GAO-24-106137
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1 Open Recommendations
Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Department of Education The Secretary of Education should ensure that the CIO of Education updates guidance to put a cloud SLA in place with every vendor when a cloud solution is deployed. The guidance should include language that addresses OMB's required elements for SLAs, including: remediation plans for non-compliance. (Recommendation 7)
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When we confirm what actions the agency has taken in response to this recommendation, we will provide updated information.

K-12 Education: Differences in Student Arrest Rates Widen when Race, Gender, and Disability Status Overlap

GAO-24-106294
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1 Open Recommendations
Agency Affected Recommendation Status
Department of Education The Secretary of Education should ensure that the Assistant Secretary of the Office for Civil Rights clearly communicate any future changes to data on arrests and referrals to law enforcement in the Civil Rights Data Collection before the start of the school year for which districts are to collect data. (Recommendation 3)
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Education agreed with this recommendation. We will monitor their efforts to clearly communicate any future changes to data on arrests and referrals to law enforcement in the Civil Rights Data Collection before the start of the school year for which districts are to collect data.

K-12 Education: Differences in Student Arrest Rates Widen when Race, Gender, and Disability Status Overlap

GAO-24-106294
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1 Open Recommendations
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Department of Education The Secretary of Education should ensure that the Assistant Secretary of the Office for Civil Rights revise the Civil Rights Data Collection to collect arrest and referral data, by race, for students with disabilities served under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended. (Recommendation 1)
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Education agreed with this recommendation. The agency said it would reconsider collecting data on students receiving services under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, disaggregated by race when it seeks approval and obtains stakeholder feedback for the 2025-2026 data collection. We will monitor the progress of this effort.
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