Feds failed to keep tabs on $3B in aid doled out to charter schools. 3 billion?

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8. Mentions FL and CA and lack of accountability toward charters.

The audit found, for example, that Florida “could not provide a reliable universe of charter schools . . . that received onsite monitoring, desk audits or closed during the grant cycle.”

In California, auditors reviewed 12 charter schools that closed after receiving federal startup funds — some even before opening their doors to any students. The state “had no followup documentation” for any of the schools, nor “any indication of what happened to any assets purchased” with federal funds, the audit concluded.

Even when monitoring of charter schools showed major deficiencies, federal and state officials were slow to seek improvements, the audit found.