United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office Health, Education, and Human Services Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1997-11-20 monographic deposited born digital 9 p. GA 1.13:T-HEHS-98-53 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-T-HEHS-98-53 P0b002ee180374a66 f:he98053t DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-T-HEHS-98-53 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-T-HEHS-98-53 T-HEHS-98-53 Management information systems School management and organization Public schools Students School districts Attendance records Data collection Data integrity Reporting requirements District of Columbia DC Public Schools Student Information System Testimony HEHS GAO discussed its report on the enrollment count process that the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) used in school year 1996-97, focusing on whether the process appeared sufficient to produce an accurate count.<p/>GAO noted that: (1) even though DCPS changed parts of its enrollment process in school year 1996-97 to address prior criticisms, the process remained flawed; (2) some of the changes increased complexity and work effort but did little to improve the count's credibility; (3) errors, including multiple enrollment records for a single student, remained in the Student Information System (SIS), but DCPS had only limited mechanisms for correcting these errors; (4) DCPS' practice of allowing principals to enroll unlimited out-of-boundary students increased the possibility of multiple enrollment records for one student; (5) DCPS' official enrollment count included categories of students usually excluded from enrollment counts in other districts when the counts are used for funding purposes; (6) problems also persisted in the critical area of residency verification; (7) the pupil accounting system failed to adequately track students; (8) other school districts report that they use several approaches to control errors and to improve the accuracy of their enrollment counts; (9) the District of Columbia School Reform Act of 1995 imposed enrollment count reporting and audit requirements, but the official enrollment count report released for school year 1996-97 did not provide all of the information required by the act; and (10) because the enrollment count will become the basis for funding DCPS, GAO has made several recommendations for improving the DCPS enrollment count. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-T-HEHS-98-53/html/GAOREPORTS-T-HEHS-98-53.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-T-HEHS-98-53/pdf/GAOREPORTS-T-HEHS-98-53.pdf GAO/T-HEHS-98-53 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-T-HEHS-98-53 Testimony GAO/T-HEHS-98-53; District of Columbia Schools: School Year 1996-97 Enrollment Count Vulnerable to Errors; Management information systems School management and organization Public schools Students School districts Attendance records Data collection Data integrity Reporting requirements District of Columbia DC Public Schools Student Information System