**GAO-11-885SP**                      Published: Sep 22, 2011. Publicly Released: Sep 22, 2011.                  

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## Highlights

This e-publication supplements our report, Recovery Act Education Programs: Funding Retained Teachers, but Education Could More Consistently Communicate Stabilization Monitoring Issues (GAO-11-804). The purpose of this e-publication is to provide information from a Web-based survey of local education agencies (LEAs)..

## Supplemental Material

### Background

This e-publication supplements our report, RECOVERY ACT EDUCATION PROGRAMS: Funding Retained Teachers, but Education Could More Consistently Communicate Stabilization Monitoring Issues (GAO-11-804). The purpose of this e-publication is to provide information from a Web-based survey of local education agencies (LEAs).

The LEA survey was designed to obtain national level information on how Recovery Act funds made available by the U.S. Department of Education under the SFSF; ESEA Title I, Part A; and IDEA, Part B programs were used and what impact these funds had on school districts. The LEA survey was conducted between March and May 2011, and was administered to LEAs in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., with a 78 percent final weighted response rate. We selected a stratified random sample of 688 LEAs from the population of 15,994 LEAs included in our sample frame of data obtained from Education's Common Core of Data in 2008-09.

Survey results in this e-publication are presented in aggregate form so that no individual LEA responses can be viewed. We excluded responses to open-ended narrative questions and categories with no responses. See the full report (GAO-11-804) for a more detailed discussion of our scope and methodology as well as a discussion of the survey results.

We conducted our work from October 2010 to September 2011 in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain sufficient, appropriate evidence to provide a reasonable basis for our findings and conclusions based on our audit objectives. We believe that the evidence obtained provides a reasonable basis for our findings and conclusions based on our audit objectives.

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