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GAO-23-106463 1 (2023-05-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaoopa0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States May 3, 2023 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 continued attention to areas where open recommendations should be given high priority.1 In November 2022, we reported that on a government-wide basis, 77 percent of our recommendations made 4 years ago were implemented.2 Education's recommendation implementation rate was 83 percent. As of March 2023, Education had 88 open recommendations. Fully implementing these open recommendations could significantly improve agency operations. Since our June 2022 letter, Education has implemented two of five priority recommendations: Education issued guidance on services available to parents placing students with a disability in a private school and worked with states to ensure their policies and procedures were consistent with this guidance. These efforts implement our November 2017 recommendation for the agency to work with states to provide accurate information on changes in special education rights when a parent places a student with a disability in a private school.3 Education implemented our November 2015 recommendation to clarify instructions and guidance to servicers of federal student loans in the Direct Loan program. The agency issued guidance to improve clarity on how servicers should apply overpayments to a borrower's student loan balance and how to treat retirement benefits when calculating borrowers' incomes for Income-Driven Repayment plans. Education is also redesigning 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 2022, GAO-22-900398 (Washington, D.C.: Nov. 15, 2022). 3GAO, Private School Choice: Federal Actions Needed to Ensure Parents Are Notified About Changes in Rights for Students with Disabilities, GAO-18-94 (Washington, D.C.: Nov.16, 2017). GAO-23-106463 Education Priority Recommendations Page 1

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