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State audit office: audits of public education rising; reports flag knowledge, controls and data-quality gaps
Summary
An internal audit briefing to the Utah State Board of Education summarized five years of audits and identified three recurring themes: gaps in staff competence/knowledge, weaknesses in policies and procedures, and problems with data quality and documentation.
The Utah State Board of Education received a high-level briefing from its internal audit office on trends across public-education audits, with staff saying the number of audits has risen and that recurring themes — staff knowledge, written controls and data quality — appear in multiple reports.
Debbie Davis, the board’s chief audit executive, told members the audit office reviewed roughly 92 audits issued over the last five years and identified about 335 recommendations directed at state and local education entities. The board was told roughly two-thirds of audit recommendations in that set were directed to the State Board of Education for action or coordination with local education agencies and the legislature.
Audit staff said…
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