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HRD-82-63 1 (1982-04-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabddq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE ,1 ~WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 HUMAN RESOURCES DIVISION April 14, 1982 The Honorable Ralph Olmo Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Management Department of Education 118169 Dear Mr. Olmo: Subject: Use of Program Income by Evaluation, Dissemination, and Assessment Centers Supported by OBEMLA (HPD-82-63) The General Accounting Office has completed a review of the use of income accrued by three Evaluation, Dissemination, and Assessment Centers established through Office of Education, now Department of Education (ED), grants. The puroose of these Centers is to assess, evaluate, and disseminate instructional materials for use in bilingual education. The Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs (OBEMLA), which operates programs directed to providing among other matters equal educa- tion opportunity for limited-English-proficient children and adults, is the program office for these Centers. TD's Assistance Management and Procurement Service (AMPS), Office of Management, provides administrative and financial direction and coordina- tion to ED's grantees and contractors. AMPS is the grants admini- stration office for the Centers. The objectives of our review were (1) to determine whether Centers used program income--income accruing to a grantee during the period of grant support--according to Federal requirements, and (2) to assess whether ED adequately monitored program income. We reviewed pertinent records and interviewed officials at OBEMLA, AMPS, and the three Centers in Los Angeles, California; Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Austin, Texas. At each Center we reviewed the accounting for and use of program income for a 1-year period; that is, the 1980-81 grant year. Our review was made in accordance with our Office's current Standards for Audit of Governmental Organizations, Programs, Activities, and Functions. BACKGROUND Section 742(e) of the Bilingual Education Act requires ED to develop and disseminate instructional materials and equipment suitable for use in bilingual education programs. OBEPLA estab- lished the center concept to carry out this responsibility. While OBEMLA had funded special projects to assess and dissemi- nate bilingual materials as early as 1970, the center concept took its present form in 1975 when ED funded three Centers. (104520) SQ / /' ( / ,

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