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GAO-22-105909 1 (2022-09-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaonqg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. Government Accountability Office S G UNDS: Specific Fiscal Year 2022 Provisions for Deparment of Education GAO-22-105909 . September 2022 Report to Congressional Committees The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 appropriated $392.2 million to the Department of Education for 473 projects at the request of Members of Congress. The act includes specific provisions that designate an amount of funds for a particular recipient, such as a nonprofit organization or a local government, to use for a specific project. These provisions are called Congressionally Directed Spending in the U.S. Senate and Community Project Funding in the House of Representatives. Members of Congress had to meet certain requirements under Senate and House rules in order to have their requests included as provisions in the act. Such requirements included that Members post requests online and certify that they had no financial interest in the projects. The House also required Members to demonstrate community support for requests. This report examines how Education intends to identify the provisions, distribute the funds made available through these provisions, and ensure the funds are spent for the purposes Congress intended. For more information on this report and others in this series, including background and methodology, visit https://www.gao.gov/tracking-funds. What are the intended uses of these funds? Department of Education: Spending Provisions The $392.2 million is intended to support a variety of educational efforts from early childhood programs to higher education. Fiscal Year 2022 Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Source: GAO analysis of Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 and accompanying joint explanatory statement; and information provided by the Department of Education. F GAO-22-105909 Based on total amount appropriated for each of the budget accounts for fiscal year 2022. Who are the designated recipients? Page 1 For these 473 projects, the most common types of designated recipients are higher education organizations (51 percent), including public and nonprofit colleges and universities, and other nonprofit organizations (38 percent). The remaining projects have state and local governments (11 percent), including school districts, as the designated recipients. Key Observations * According to Education officials, although some designated recipients have previously received federal assistance from Education, many have not- including more than half of the designated recipients that are not higher GAO-22-1 05909 Tracking the Funds: Department of Education '

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