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AIMD-95-229R 1 (1995-08-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackxq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Accounting and Information Management Division B-265855 August 28, 1995 The Honorable James T. Walsh Chairman Subcommittee on District of Columbia Committee on Appropriations House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: This letter responds to your June 30, 1995, request for information regarding the recent sample of the student enrollment population of the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS). Dr. Franklin L. Smith, Superintendent of DCPS, requested that an internal student enrollment audit be performed because of concerns that a sizable discrepancy existed between DCPS's school year 1994-1995 enrollment figures and the enrollment reported in the 1990 federal census. DCPS's enrollment figures were being questioned because they have remained constant while the District's population has been declining. An accurate and complete accounting of students is essential to answering fundamental questions such as the needed number of schools and their location and per pupil costs. You asked us to (1) describe the work we performed in connection with this sample, (2) evaluate the sampling plan prepared and the procedures performed by DCPS, (3) evaluate the sample results, and (4) suggest ways to either improve the sampling process or provide a different approach to determine the student enrollment population. Our response to your questions is based on the knowledge we gained as observers of the student enrollment count, which took place on May 16 to 18, 1995; our review of the DCPS's Coordinator's Manaaement Reoort and F.S. Taylor & Associates, P.C. (an outside contractor hired to assist the DCPS with its student enrollment count) Report on Accumulation of Membership Count Sample, both dated June 30, 1995; our calculation of the sample error rate, confidence interval, and confidence percentage for the known errors; and our discussions with officials from the Bureau of the Census. We GAO/AIMD-95-229R D.C. Public School Enrollment

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