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B-164031(1) 1 (1971-12-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabkkb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1 RESTRICTED .-- e- t!. t .de the General Accounft Clrog by the Offic k, S by the Distrbui.-L COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UN WELASINTON D.C. 20548 0XTF REL, IASED B-164031 (i) CI Dear Mr. Snyder: In accordance with your letter of July 2, 1971, and with our discussion with you on September 15, 1971, we examined into the statements made to you by your constituents to the ef- fect that Fe funds had been misused by the school system in Trimble County, Kentucky. The statements referFd to (1) Tien fit 6f teachers' salaries through the unauthorized use of funds provided for aid to educationally deprived children under title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, (2) enrollment of inellib-l- chil-dren in the Head Start pro- gram, (3) unavailability of title I funds bud -t d-ftor pur- chasing teaching supplies for the Summer Migratory Program, and (4) the possibility that the school district had forged Federal employees' signatures to forms used to claim Federal impacted aid funds. The Office of Education administers the title I and im- pacted aid funds, and the Office of Child Development adminis- ters the Head Start program. Both are agencies of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. As a result of our inquiry, the Division of Finance, Ken- tucky Department of Education, investigated the use of title I funds by Trimble County to pay teachers' salaries and concluded in its report that the title I program erroneously had been charged $2,020 for the first half of the 1970-71 school year. This amount included $1,984 paid to a teacher during the first semester and $36 paid to a'substitute teacher for 1 day's work. According to the Division of Finance, the charge to the title I program was erroneous because the payments to the two teachers were for teaching a third-grade class which was not eligible for title I funding. The Division of Finance recommended that the State title I director request the Trimble County Board of Education to refund $2,020 to the title I program. After we inquired into what action he planned to take on the recommendation, the State title I director conducted his own investigation of the matter and subsequently requested the superintendent of Trimble County Schools to reimburse the $2,020 to the title I program. The director said that the Trimble County superintendent had told him that the refund would be made after official action was taken at the next meet- ing of the Trimble County Board of Education, scheduled for November 1971. We could not determine, without contacting the applicants, whether any of the 112 children enrolled in the 1971 T ble 50TH ANNIVERSARY 1921-1971

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