Regulations

Washington, Aug. 12 – The Office of Management and Budget added numerous requirements for auditing American Recovery and Reinvestment Act programs in a recent addendum to the 2009 Circular A-133 Compliance Supplement. The addendum includes special tests and provisions for Recovery Act awards, along with guidance stressing the importance of internal controls over Recovery Act funds.

School Improvement Grants; American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA); Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as Amended (ESEA): Interim Regulations. See more school improvement documents on the Laws/Regulations page under "Guidance" and School Improvement Grants.

Read the full text of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 as amended by the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 — A final audit of nearly $50 billion in State Fiscal Stabilization Fund (SFSF) formula grants found that the U.S. Department of Education (ED) did not do enough to ensure that states complied with maintenance-of-effort (MOE) requirements, which aimed to keep state education funding from dropping below minimum levels in the wake of the huge influx of federal dollars.

 WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 Grantees who are having an Office of Management and Budget Circular A-133 single audit performed on programs funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act should not be defensive about audit findings and should make every effort to correct them now instead of facing even bigger problems later, a federal inspector general official said.