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GAO-22-105622 1 (2022-06-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaonhk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O tU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States June 28, 2022 The Honorable Miguel Cardona Secretary of Education U.S. Department of Education 400 Maryland Avenue, SW Washington, DC 20202 Priority Open Recommendations: Department of Education Dear Secretary Cardona: The purpose of this letter is to provide an update on the overall status of the Department of Education's implementation of GAO's recommendations and to call your attention to areas where open recommendations should be given high priority.1 In November 2021, we reported that on a government-wide basis, 76 percent of our recommendations made 4 years ago were implemented.2 Education's recommendation implementation rate was 81 percent. As of May 2022, Education had 60 open recommendations. Fully implementing these open recommendations could significantly improve agency operations. Since our June 2021 letter, Education has implemented three of seven priority recommendations: Education took steps to regularly collect and publicly report information on state and school district spending of certain COVID-19 relief funds, providing greater clarity to track spending, as we recommended in our March 2021 report.3 Education implemented two recommendations from our April 2020 report to improve the accuracy of data collected on restraint and seclusion incidents in public schools by developing business rules that target school districts that report very low and very high numbers of incidents and setting data-driven thresholds.4 1Priority recommendations are those that GAO believes warrant priority attention from heads of key departments or agencies. They are highlighted because, upon implementation, they may significantly improve government operations, for example, by realizing large dollar savings; eliminating mismanagement, fraud, and abuse; or making progress toward addressing a high-risk or fragmentation, overlap, or duplication issue. 2GAO, Performance and Accountability Report: Fiscal Year 2021, GAO-22-4SP (Washington, D.C.: Nov. 15, 2021). 3GAO, COVID-19: Sustained Federal Action Is Crucial as Pandemic Enters Its Second Year, GAO-21-387 (Washington, D.C.: Mar. 31, 2021). 4GAO, K-12 Education: Education Needs to Address Significant Quality Issues with its Restraint and Seclusion Data, GAO-20-345 (Washington, D.C.: Apr. 21, 2020). GAO-22-105622 Education Priority Recommendations Page 1

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