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COVID-19 Spending Reports
Followup—Arizona school districts’ and charter schools’, and ADE’s discretionary, COVID-19 federal relief spending—through June 30, 2022... View Report
Arizona Auditor General Special COVID-19 Funding Report, November 2022... View Report
School District Financial Risk Analysis
As of December 2022, 3 Arizona school districts are at higher financial risk of not being able to operate within their available cash resources and budget constraints…View Report
School District Spending Report
In FY 2022, dollars spent on instruction and total per-student spending increased from the prior year, but the State-wide instructional spending percentage decreased by 0.8 percentage points because districts allocated a smaller proportion of the increased operational spending to instruction than in prior years. The State average teacher salary increased to $58,366 and districts used COVID-19 federal relief monies to help fund a portion of the increase…View Report
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Followup—Arizona school districts’ and charter schools’, and ADE’s discretionary, COVID-19 federal relief spending—in fiscal year 2022 and in total through June 30, 2022 (Originally issued January 1, 2023)November 2, 2023This special report provides summary information and 4 interactive dashboards with Arizona school districts’ and charter schools’ reported spending in fiscal year 2022 and through June 30, 2022,... View Report |
 Summary of special report followup January 2023 data file July 2023 data file November 2023 data file |
Fraud Prevention Alert—Computer Tampering FraudsNovember 2, 2023From 2015 through 2022, we issued 12 financial investigation reports associated with about $1.4 million of Arizona public money losses where computer tampering was either the means of theft and/or... View Report |
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Owens-Whitney Elementary School DistrictOctober 19, 2023District did not comply with State laws and USFR requirements in multiple areas, resulting in 2 employees participating in possible substantial interest conflicts, a negative general fund balance... View Report |
Report Highlights Response |
Ganado Unified School DistrictOctober 17, 2023District failed to maintain required accounting records, limiting the scope of our review; limited public access to some Board meetings and wasted more than $48,000 on unnecessary travel; operated... View Report |
Report Highlights Response |
Arizona Commerce Authority—Sunset ReviewSeptember 29, 2023ACA manages various business incentives; spent more than $2.4 million hosting 5 private CEO Forums, reportedly to market Arizona to companies; and is at increased risk of fraud and waste of public... View Report |
Report Highlights Auditor General Comments on Response Response |
