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Special Education: Federal Actions Can Assist States in Improving Postsecondary Outcomes for Youth
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "States receive federal funds under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to help students with disabilities reach their postsecondary goals, and various federal programs offer services that can assist these youth. However, research has documented that youth with disabilities are less likely to transition into postsecondary education and employment. Congress requested that GAO provide information on (1) the proportion of IDEA students completing high school with a diploma or alternative credentials, and their postsecondary status; (2) the transition problems being reported and state and local actions to address them; and (3) the types of transition services provided by the vocational rehabilitation, the Workforce Investment Act youth, and the Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency programs, and the factors affecting participation of IDEA youth."
Date:
July 30, 2003
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Information Security: Computer Controls over Key Treasury Internet Payment System
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins ""Pay.gov" is an Internet portal sponsored and managed by the Department of the Treasury's Financial Management Service (FMS) and operated at three Federal Reserve facilities. Pay.gov is intended to allow the public to make certain non-income-tax-payments to the federal government securely over the Internet. FMS estimates that Pay.gov eventually could annually process 80 million transactions valued at $125 billion annually. Because of the magnitude of transaction volume and dollar value envisioned for Pay.gov, GAO was asked to determine whether FMS (1) conducted a comprehensive security risk assessment and (2) implemented and documented appropriate security measures and controls for the system's protection."
Date:
July 30, 2003
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Information Technology: Executive office for U.S. Attorneys Needs to Institutionalize Key IT Management Disciplines
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Executive Office for United States Attorneys (EOUSA) of the Department of Justice is responsible for managing information technology (IT) resources for the United States Attorneys' Offices. GAO was asked to determine the extent to which EOUSA has institutionalized key IT management capabilities that are critical to achieving Justice's strategic goal of improving the integrity, security, and efficiency of its IT systems."
Date:
July 25, 2003
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
World Trade Organization: Standard of Review and Impact of Trade Remedy Rulings
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "World Trade Organization (WTO) members rely on trade remedies in the form of duties or other import restrictions to protect their industries from injury due to unfair foreign trade practices or unexpected import surges. There is congressional concern that the WTO, created in 1995 to administer trade rules, is interfering with this ability. There is also congressional concern that the WTO is not treating the United States fairly in resolving trade remedy disputes. A congressional requester asked GAO to identify trends in WTO trade remedy disputes since 1995, including the outcomes of these disputes and how they affected members' ability to impose trade remedies. The requester also asked GAO to discuss the standards of review that the WTO applies when ruling on trade remedy disputes and to present U.S. agencies' and legal experts' views on the WTO's application of these standards and related trade remedy issues. In their comments on a draft of this report, the Department of Commerce and the U.S. International Trade Commission stated that the report needed to put more emphasis on U.S. agencies' concerns about the potential adverse impact of WTO rulings …
Date:
July 30, 2003
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Single-Employer Insurance Program: Long-Term Vulnerabilities Warrant 'High Risk' Designation
Other written product issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The potential losses that the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), through its single-employer insurance program, might face from the termination of underfunded plans have been a longstanding concern of the Congress and GAO. In 1990, as part of our effort to call attention to high-risk areas in the federal government, we noted that weaknesses in the single-employer insurance program's financial condition threatened PBGC's longterm viability. We stated that minimum funding rules still did not ensure that plan sponsors would contribute enough for terminating plans to have sufficient assets to cover all promised benefits. In 1992, we also reported that PBGC had weaknesses in its internal controls and financial systems that placed the entire agency, and not just the single employer program, at risk. Three years later, we reported that legislation enacted in 1994 had strengthened PBGC's program weaknesses and that we believed improvements had been significant enough for us to remove the agency's high-risk designation. However, given the potential for significant changes in the program's position, we continued to monitor the situation. Early this year, PBGC's single-employer pension insurance program reported a $3.6 billion accumulated deficit …
Date:
July 23, 2003
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Veterans Benefits Administration: Process for Preventing Improper Payments to Deceased Veterans Can Be Improved
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In fiscal year 2002, the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) paid about $22.4 billion in disability compensation to over 2.6 million veterans and their survivors and about $3.3 billion in pension benefits to about 581,000 veterans and their survivors. To ensure that VBA makes proper payments under these programs, we reviewed the effectiveness of VBA efforts to prevent payments to deceased veterans by matching its Compensation and Pension (C&P) Master Records database of current beneficiaries with the Social Security Administration's (SSA) Death Master File."
Date:
July 24, 2003
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Bureau of Indian Affairs Schools: New Facilities Management Information System Promising, but Improved Data Accuracy Needed
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is responsible for providing over 48,000 children with a safe place to learn. In response to concerns that data in its old information system did not accurately reflect the condition of facilities, BIA acquired a new system, called the Facilities Management Information System (FMIS). GAO was asked to determine whether FMIS addresses the old system's weaknesses and meets BIA's management needs, whether BIA has finished validating the accuracy of data entered into FMIS from the old system, and how well the quality control measures are working for ensuring the accuracy of new data being entered into the system from individual schools."
Date:
July 28, 2003
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Waste: Challenges and Savings Opportunities in DOE's High-Level Waste Cleanup Program
Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Energy (DOE) oversees the treatment and disposal of 94 million gallons of highly radioactive nuclear waste from the nation's nuclear weapons program, currently at DOE sites in Washington, Idaho, and South Carolina. In 2002, DOE began an initiative to reduce the estimated $105-billion cost and 70-year time frame of this cleanup. GAO was asked to testify on the status of this initiative, the legal and technical challenges DOE faces in implementation, and any further opportunities to reduce costs or improve program management. GAO's testimony is based on a report (GAO-03-593) released at the hearing."
Date:
July 17, 2003
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Public Accounting Firms: Mandated Study on Consolidation and Competition
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The audit market for large public companies is an oligopoly, with the largest firms auditing the vast majority of public companies and smaller firms facing significant barriers to entry into the market. Mergers among the largest firms in the 1980s and 1990s and the dissolution of Arthur Andersen in 2002 significantly increased concentration among the largest firms, known as the "Big 4." These four firms currently audit over 78 percent of all U.S. public companies and 99 percent of all public company sales. This consolidation and the resulting concentration have raised a number of concerns. To address them, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 mandated that GAO study (1) the factors contributing to the mergers; (2) the implications of consolidation on competition and client choice, audit fees, audit quality, and auditor independence; (3) the impact of consolidation on capital formation and securities markets; and (4) barriers to entry faced by smaller accounting firms in competing with the largest firms for large public company audits."
Date:
July 30, 2003
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Depot Maintenance: Key Unresolved Issues Affect the Army Depot System's Viability
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Army's five maintenance depots produced work valued at $1.5 billion in fiscal year 2002, with the remaining 49 percent of the Army's depot work performed by contractors. GAO was asked to assess (1) the trends in and the reliability of depot workload projections; (2) whether workloads are sufficient for efficient depot operations, initiatives are under way to improve efficiency, and additional workloads are possible; (3) whether the Army has identified depots' core capability and provided workload to support that capability; and (4) whether the Army has a long-range plan for a viable, efficient depot system."
Date:
July 7, 2003
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Defense Management: DOD Faces Challenges Implementing Its Core Competency Approach and A-76 Competitions
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Defense (DOD) is pursuing a new initiative involving a core competency approach for making sourcing decisions--that is, sourcing decisions based on whether the function is core to the agency's warfighting mission. In determining how to best perform non-core functions, DOD's position is that its components should look beyond just the use of public-private competitions under Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-76 in making sourcing decisions, and consider other alternatives such as partnering or employee stock ownership. GAO was asked to assess (1) the department's progress in assessing its core functions as a basis for sourcing decisions, (2) the plans and progress DOD has made in identifying and implementing alternatives to A-76, and (3) the current status of DOD's A-76 program."
Date:
July 15, 2003
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Defense Pilot Programs: DOD Needs to Improve Implementation Process for Pilot Programs
A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In fiscal years 1999, 2000, and 2003, the Congress authorized pilot programs to help the Department of Defense (DOD) laboratories and test centers explore innovative business partnerships and human capital strategies. Congressional concerns about DOD's implementation of the pilot programs have been growing. The Congress mandated that GAO review pilot program implementation. GAO (1) identified the pilot initiatives proposed and their current status, (2) examined factors that affected implementation, and (3) assessed implementation challenges the 2003 pilot program faces."
Date:
July 28, 2003
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Military Aircraft: Considerations in Reviewing the Air Force Proposal to Lease Aerial Refueling Aircraft
Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This testimony discusses the Air Force's report on the planned lease of 100 Boeing 767 aircraft modified for aerial refueling. These aircraft would be known by a new designation, KC-767A. Section 8159 of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2002 authorizes the Air Force to lease up to 100 KC-767A aircraft. We received the report required by section 8159 when it was sent to the Congress on July 10. We subsequently received a briefing from the Air Force and some of the data needed to review the draft lease and lease versus purchase analysis. However, we were permitted to read the lease for the first time on July 18 but were not allowed to make a copy and so have not had time to fully review and analyze the terms of the draft lease. As a result, this testimony today will be based on very preliminary work. It will (1) describe the condition of the current aerial refueling fleet, (2) summarize the proposed lease as presented in the Air Force's recent report, (3) present our preliminary observations on the Air Force lease report, and (4) …
Date:
July 23, 2003
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Post-Hearing Question From the May 8, 2003, Hearing on Barriers to Information Sharing at the Department of Homeland Security
Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This letter provides GAO's response for the record to the question posed by Congress concerning whether GAO believes that the Department of Homeland Security should consolidate databases in order to enable the correlation of relationships in that data that can point to developing threats."
Date:
July 7, 2003
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Health Care: Approaches to Address Racial and Ethnic Disparities
Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "A recent report by the Institute of Medicine, a branch of the National Academy of Sciences, found that racial and ethnic minority groups tend to receive a lower quality of health care than nonminorities, even when access-related factors such as income and insurance coverage are controlled. It concluded that the elimination of racial and ethnic health care disparities is a major challenge in the United States. Racial and ethnic minority groups identified by the federal government--American Indians or Alaska Natives, Asians, Blacks or African Americans, Hispanics or Latinos, and Native Hawaiians or other Pacific Islanders--are expected to make up an increasingly large portion of the U.S. population in coming years. The federal government, primarily through programs under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), plays a major role in providing and financing health care for minority groups. HHS is also the primary federal entity involved in projects and research aimed at understanding and addressing disparities in health care. HHS has focused on racial and ethnic disparities in health access and outcomes in six areas: cancer screening and management, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, HIV infection/AIDS, immunizations, and infant mortality. …
Date:
July 8, 2003
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Special Investigations Unit Report Regarding Tom Green County Community Action Council
Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the State Auditor's Special Investigations Unit into allegations of fraud committed by members of the Tom Green County Community Action Council.
Date:
July 2003
Creator:
Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A Review of Financial Controls over Patient Accounts Receivable and Uncompensated Care at State Medical Institutions
Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether the state medical institutions have effective controls over patient billings, receivable accounting, and collection processes; determining whether all available sources are utilized for indigent care; determining whether the institutions are taking advantage of alternative bad debt collection; and determining whether the institutions report bad debts to the Office of the Attorney General.
Date:
July 2003
Creator:
Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Summary Data Regarding Full-Time Equivalent Employees for the Quarter Ending May 31, 2003
Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to providing the Legislature and the public with information on the average number of full-time equivalent employees (FTEs) and contract FTEs that perform services for state government.
Date:
July 2003
Creator:
Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
An Audit of National Heritage Insurance Company Accounts Receivable, Claim Counts, and Selected Trust Funds Related to Administering Medicaid Claims for the Health and Human Services Commission
Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to the National Heritage Insurance Company's (NHIC) accounts receivable, claim counts, and selected trust funds, its ability to administer Medicaid funds on behalf of the Health and Human Services Commission (Commission), and the amount the Commission pays NHIC for administering Medicaid claims.
Date:
July 2003
Creator:
Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A Review of Selected Mission Critical Information Systems at the Texas Education Agency
Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to determining whether the Texas Education Agency's (Agency) Enterprise Data Management (EDM) program ensures the security, reliability, and continuity of selected major information systems and the data they provide.
Date:
July 2003
Creator:
Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cherokeean/Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 154, No. 19, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 2, 2003
Weekly newspaper from Rusk, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 2, 2003
Creator:
Whitehead, Marie
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cherokeean/Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 154, No. 20, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 9, 2003
Weekly newspaper from Rusk, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 9, 2003
Creator:
Whitehead, Marie
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cherokeean/Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 154, No. 21, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 16, 2003
Weekly newspaper from Rusk, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 16, 2003
Creator:
Whitehead, Marie
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cherokeean/Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 154, No. 22, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 23, 2003
Weekly newspaper from Rusk, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 23, 2003
Creator:
Whitehead, Marie
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History