U.S. Department of Education Office of Inspector General Semiannual Report to Congress No. 43 (April 1-September 30, 2001)

摘要

The Office of Inspector General (OIG), for the period April 1 to September 30, 2001, continued its work to improve the programs and operations of the Department of Education (the Department, or ED) and to protect their integrity. In particular, we focused on areas in which we have identified long-standing weaknesses financial management and internal controls, information technology (IT) security, and the student financial assistance programs. In response to Congressional, OIG and General Accounting Office (GAO) concerns about the management of the Department, the Secretary this period established a Management Improvement Team (MIT) to, among other things, identify and close as many short-term management improvement recommendations as possible. These are largely OIG recommendations that we identified in our audit, inspection, and investigation work.