K-12 spending, absenteeism programs at risk as feds end monitoring, watchdog says
A federal audit warns that the Department of Education's decision to suspend comprehensive monitoring puts billions in K-12 funding at risk of waste and fraud.
The U.S. Department of Education’s suspension of a comprehensive monitoring process puts billions of K-12 dollars at heightened risk of undetected waste, fraud and abuse, says a new audit, that also raised concerns about the reliability of federal absenteeism data.
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