GADSDEN COUNTY DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD
Report No. 2019-089 December 2018
GADSDEN COUNTY DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD
Florida Education Finance Program Full-Time Equivalent Student Enrollment
and Student Transportation For the Fiscal Year Ended
June 30, 2017
Sherrill F. Norman, CPA Auditor General
Attestation Examination
Board Members and Superintendent
During the 2016-17 fiscal year, Roger P. Milton served as Superintendent of the Gadsden County Schools from 11-22-16, Dr. Pink Hightower served as Interim Superintendent of the Gadsden County Schools from 10-1-16 through 11-21-16, Reginald C. James served as Superintendent before that date, and the following individuals served as Board members:
District No.
Audrey D. Lewis from 11-22-16 a
1
Steve Scott, Vice Chair from 11-22-16
2
Isaac Simmons Jr., Chair from 11-22-16,
Vice Chair through 11-21-16
3
Charlie D. Frost, Sr.
4
Tyrone D. Smith from 11-22-16
5
Roger P. Milton, Chair through 11-21-16
5
a Board Member position vacant through 11-21-16.
The team leader was John Ray Speaks, Jr., CPA, and the examination was supervised by Aileen B. Peterson, CPA, CPM.
Please address inquiries regarding this report to J. David Hughes, CPA, Audit Manager, by e-mail at davidhughes@aud.state.fl.us or by telephone at (850) 412-2971.
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GADSDEN COUNTY DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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SUMMARY ................................................................................................................................................ i
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT ON FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT STUDENT ENROLLMENT ....................................................................................................................................... 1 SCHEDULE A ? POPULATIONS, TEST SELECTION, AND TEST RESULTS
Reported Full-Time Equivalent Student Enrollment .......................................................................... 4 Schools and Students........................................................................................................................4 Teachers............................................................................................................................................ 5 Proposed Adjustments ...................................................................................................................... 5 SCHEDULE B ? EFFECT OF PROPOSED ADJUSTMENTS ON WEIGHTED FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT STUDENT ENROLLMENT ......................................................................... 6 SCHEDULE C ? PROPOSED ADJUSTMENTS BY SCHOOL ................................................................. 7 SCHEDULE D ? FINDINGS AND PROPOSED ADJUSTMENTS Overview............................................................................................................................................ 9 Findings ............................................................................................................................................. 9 SCHEDULE E ? RECOMMENDATIONS AND REGULATORY CITATIONS ......................................... 15 NOTES TO SCHEDULES.......................................................................................................................18
INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT ON STUDENT TRANSPORTATION ...................................... 21 SCHEDULE F ? POPULATIONS, TEST SELECTION, AND TEST RESULTS......................................24 SCHEDULE G ? FINDINGS AND PROPOSED ADJUSTMENTS
Overview.......................................................................................................................................... 26 Findings ........................................................................................................................................... 26 SCHEDULE H ? RECOMMENDATIONS AND REGULATORY CITATIONS ......................................... 31 NOTES TO SCHEDULES.......................................................................................................................32
MANAGEMENT'S RESPONSE .............................................................................................................. 33
GADSDEN COUNTY DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
CMW DEUSS DIT DOE DJJ ELL ESE ESOL FAC FEFP FTE IDEA PK SBE
Class Minutes, Weekly Date Entered United States School Days in Term Department of Education Department of Juvenile Justice English Language Learner Exceptional Student Education English for Speakers of Other Languages Florida Administrative Code Florida Education Finance Program Full-Time Equivalent Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Prekindergarten State Board of Education
SUMMARY
SUMMARY OF ATTESTATION EXAMINATION
Except for the material noncompliance described below involving teachers and reporting errors or records that were not properly or accurately prepared or were not available at the time of our examination and could not be subsequently located for students in ESOL, ESE Support Levels 4 and 5, and student transportation, the Gadsden County District School Board (District) complied, in all material respects, with State requirements relating to the classification, assignment, and verification of the full-time equivalent (FTE) student enrollment and student transportation as reported under the Florida Education Finance Program (FEFP) for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2017. Specifically, we noted:
State requirements governing noncertificated instructional personnel, teacher certification, School
Board approval of out-of-field teacher assignments, notification to parents regarding teachers' out-of-field status, or the earning of college credits towards certification in the out-of-field subject areas were not met for 9 of the 54 teachers in our test. Two (4 percent) of the 54 teachers in our test taught at charter schools but none of the teachers with exceptions taught at charter schools.
Exceptions involving reporting errors or records that were not properly or accurately prepared or
were not available at the time of our examination and could not be subsequently located for 60 of the 61 students in our ESOL test and 3 of the 15 students in our ESE Support Levels 4 and 5 test. Three (5 percent) of the 61 students in our ESOL test attended charter schools and 3 (5 percent) of the 60 students with exceptions attended charter schools. None of the students in our ESE Support Levels 4 and 5 test attended charter schools.
Exceptions involving the reported ridership classification or eligibility for State transportation
funding for 40 of the 263 students in our student transportation test in addition to 558 students identified in our general tests.
Noncompliance related to the reported FTE student enrollment resulted in 12 findings. The resulting proposed net adjustment to the District's reported, unweighted FTE totaled negative 45.5158 (31.0255 applicable to District schools other than charter schools and 14.4903 applicable to charter schools) but has a potential impact on the District's weighted FTE of negative 62.1897 (47.0814 applicable to District schools other than charter schools and 15.1083 applicable to charter schools). Noncompliance related to student transportation resulted in 8 findings and a proposed net adjustment of negative 598 students.
The weighted adjustments to the FTE student enrollment are presented in our report for illustrative purposes only. The weighted adjustments to the FTE student enrollment do not take special program caps and allocation factors into account and are not intended to indicate the weighted FTE used to compute the dollar value of adjustments. That computation is the responsibility of the Department of Education (DOE). However, the gross dollar effect of our proposed adjustments to the FTE may be estimated by multiplying the proposed net weighted adjustments to the FTE student enrollment by the base student allocation amount. The base student allocation for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2017, was $4,160.71 per FTE. For the District, the estimated gross dollar effect of our proposed adjustments to the reported FTE student enrollment is negative $258,753 (negative 62.1897 times $4,160.71), of which $195,892 is applicable to District schools other than charter schools and $62,861 is applicable to charter schools.
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