A hearing this week by the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Education and the Workforce Committee found little improvement in the situation. In December 1999 alone, the Department made 6.5 million dollars in duplicate payments to schools - a reconciliation problem they had claimed to have corrected last fall. The auditors cite problems in internal accounts and procedures as well. Over the last five years, external auditors have made 139 recommendations to the Department, but 111 of them remain unresolved. The strength of higher education in this country is that students have choice.
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Increasingly that road leads to the door of one of 1,100 reasonably priced, market-responsive community colleges. But, such characteristics as pedagogical skills, compassion and resourcefulness are difficult to measure and not assessed by the mostly commonly used licensure tests, he said. A final report is due in November. This is the largest single-year increase since QED began tracking school district technology budgets a decade ago. With contract negotiations looming, the Los Angeles Unified School District wants to institute a pay for performance plan.