Our objective was to determine whether the California Department of Education (California) appropriately allocated Immediate Aid to Restart School Operations (Restart) program funds and ensured that local educational agencies (LEA) and nonpublic schools used Restart program funds for allowable and intended purposes.
California appropriately allocated 2018 and 2019 Restart program funds to LEAs and nonpublic schools. Although we did not identify any unallowable costs at the two LEAs whose uses of Restart program funds we reviewed, we found that California needs to improve its processes for ensuring that LEAs use Restart program funds for allowable and intended purposes.
We made five recommendations, including that California implement procedures to timely monitor expenditures for the Restart program at LEAs and ensure its reimbursement processes are implemented as designed when administering future disaster programs.
Oversight and Monitoring—Grantees
This is one of several reports the OIG has issued on this program. Other State and territorial reports can be found on our Disaster Recovery page.