Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Just released! Audit of State Department of Education

The Maryland General Assembly's Office of Legislative Audits (OLA) has just released their Performance Audit Report for the Maryland State Department of Education.  Read the full audit here for details of the findings and recommendations.

Earlier this year, the OLA released their audit of MCPS.

Here is the summary of recommendations from the Maryland State Department of Education audit: 
Recommendations
The following detailed recommendations are among those we made to MSDE to
help strengthen the quality control processes and improve reporting for the
measures we audited.

• Establish procedures to ensure that all relevant data are included in the
measure calculation and that the data, including data obtained from third
parties, are reasonably accurate.
• Establish written definitions for all measures.
• Ensure that the reported performance measure represents the actual results
of the related measure calculation.

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