District of Columbia: Weaknesses in Personnel Records and Public Schools'
Management Information and Controls (Testimony, 06/14/95,
GAO/T-AIMD-95-170).

This testimony discusses the quality of the District of Columbia's
personnel and payroll information.  GAO focuses on the D.C. public
schools, including their total expenditures, per pupil costs, controls
over personnel information and payments, data on the number of students
and controls over nonresident students, and funding for the capital
program.  GAO notes that District programs and agencies are plagued with
poor management information that hampers District officials' ability to
manage programs and make the hard choices necessary to resolve the
current fiscal crisis.  Nowhere is this more true than with the
situation regarding personnel information.  Information on employees in
personnel, payroll, and budget systems is often erroneous and
inconsistent. Managing personnel costs in the D.C. public schools is
particularly problematic: Actual personnel expenditures exceeded the
budget in each of the last five fiscal years.  The D.C. public schools
also have poor management information on the number of students and lack
an effective program to identify nonresident students.  GAO makes
several recommendations to deal with these problems.

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 REPORTNUM:  T-AIMD-95-170
     TITLE:  District of Columbia: Weaknesses in Personnel Records and 
             Public Schools' Management Information and Controls
      DATE:  06/14/95
   SUBJECT:  Personnel records
             Public schools
             Management information systems
             Payroll records
             Overtime compensation
             Information resources management
             Internal controls
             Students
IDENTIFIER:  DC Public Schools Student Information Membership System
             DC Public Schools Central Investment Fund
             Texas
             Florida
             DC Public Schools Capital Program
             
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