The Office of the Comptroller of Puerto Rico issues a favorable opinion with exceptions on the process of evaluation and award of federal funds for work plans and competitive proposals of the Office of Federal Affairs of the Department of Education. From July 1, 2013 to December 31, 2015, 61 work plans for $195.7 million were approved.
The Report reveals deficiencies with the process of screening, evaluation, endorsement, and approval of the work plans funded with federal funds. In some cases the evaluation and endorsement took up to four months when the regulation establishes 20 days; other plans were referred to the Academic Work Plans Evaluation Committee without the Human Resources Certification or without the draft budget. These situations cause delays in the implementation of work plans and affect student achievement.
Contrary to the Procedure for the early intervention system, the project officials of the Office of Federal Affairs of the DE did not issue the quarterly status reports of the projects. In addition, our auditors identified Title 1-A work plans that were not included in the risk analysis, contrary to the Procedure Manual, Federal Monitoring Units.
The four-finding audit points out that the processes for awarding federal funds for the work plans and competitive proposals did not have updated regulations –the Manual was from 2010– and the guidelines for the evaluation of the federal proposals had not been approved.
The Report covers the period from July 1, 2013 to November 30, 2016.
See Audit Report DA-17-39
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