Arizona State Schools for the Deaf and the Blind—Performance Audit

ASDB graduated students who did not meet graduation requirements and thus may have been unprepared for secondary education or the job market; could not demonstrate that it conducted background checks for some employees and did not timely investigate complaints it received, potentially affecting student/staff safety; did not complete all required staff evaluations and could not demonstrate that it assigned qualified substitutes for teacher absences and vacancies or all its staff met required qualifications, potentially impacting educational quality; and did not assess student impacts or obtain input from stakeholders and formal Board approval before deciding to relocate its Tucson campus, resulting in a lack of transparency regarding its future operations.