Deaf Education: Improved Oversight Needed for National Technical
Institute for the Deaf (Letter Report, 12/16/93, GAO/HRD-94-23).

In 1965, Congress passed legislation creating the National Technical
Institute for the Deaf (NTID), a postsecondary institution intended to
train and educate deaf persons for successful employment.  The Rochester
Institute of Technology (RIT) in upstate New York subsequently agreed to
host NTID.  The Education Department assumed responsibility in fiscal
year 1980 for administering the agreement with RIT and for overseeing
NTID.  GAO found that NTID has done a poor job of accounting for how it
has spent federal funds, has inappropriately carried over federal funds
from one year to the next, and may have used federal funds improperly.
Although NTID is not under the same restrictions that federal agencies
and grantees must abide by when using federal funds, some NTID
expenditures did not directly relate to NTID operations. Education
Department and NTID officials believe that NTID's dependence on federal
dollars will continue at its present level of 83 percent of total
revenues despite program changes that have occurred.  Review of NTID has
been minimal.

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 REPORTNUM:  HRD-94-23
     TITLE:  Deaf Education: Improved Oversight Needed for National 
             Technical Institute for the Deaf
      DATE:  12/16/93
   SUBJECT:  Educational programs
             Aid for education
             Handicapped persons
             Education or training
             Higher education
             Special education
             Federal funds
             Accounting procedures
             Federal fund accounts
             Budget outlays
IDENTIFIER:  National Technical Institute for the Deaf Strategic Plan
             
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