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DOCUMNT RESUME
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Office of Education's Basic Grant Program Can Be Improved.
HRD-77-91; E-16L0.31(1). September 21, 1977. 43 pp. + 7
appendices (18 pp.).
Report to the Congress; by Elmer B. Staats, Comptroller General.
Issue Area: Education, Training, and Employment Programs:
Student Assistance Programs for Post-Secondary Education
(1101).
Contact: Human Resources Div.
Budget Function: Iducation, Hanpower, and Social Services:
Higher Education (502).
Organization Concerned: Department of Health, Education, and
Welfare; Office of Education.
Congressional Relevance: House Committee ou Education and Labor;
Senate Committee on Human Resources; Congress.
Authority: Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (20 U.S.C
1070b (Supp. I) 20 U.S.C. 1071 (Supp. IV); 42 U.S.C. 2751
(Supp. III)). Education Amerdments of 1976 (20 U.S.C.
1070 (b) (4) (A)).
The Basic Educational Opportunity Grant Program has
provided financial rld to needy students, brt often has not met
its legislative goal of being the foundation of financial aid
for needy students. Findings/Conclusions: The Office of
Education has not established adequate controls to guarantee
that information supplied by applicants and parents is accurate.
As much as $24.3 million may have been awarded to ineligible
students. Other basic grants of as much as $117.9 million were
avarded without resolving conflicts in information. Because of
problems in the program's information processing system, the
Office could not provide needed technical assistance to
participating schools and has not determined how postsecondary
schools administer the Basic Grant Program. Recommendations:
The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare should direct
the Office of Education to: more accurately estimate basic jrant
funding by extensively using the information available from
program experience; provide students with application materials
containing information about the Basic Grant program,
emphasizing its entitlement and student aid features;
periodically assess the effect cf the program's outreach
efforts; improve technical assistance to participating schools
and regularly review them cnsite; require the program to get
data from participa4-4q schools on students who drop out;
include tests in t ,irsem~nt process to prevent students
from receiving durl. P Is; and do more to get refunds
from students who ha. from tuition-free schools and
from schools choosing n as the Office's disbursing
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