Report 2019-104 Recommendation 36 Responses
Report 2019-104: Youth Experiencing Homelessness: California's Education System for K-12 Inadequately Identifies and Supports These Youth (Release Date: November 2019)
Recommendation #36 To: Education, Department of
To effectively monitor LEAs and help them identify additional youth experiencing homelessness, Education should develop a method for determining those LEAs that may be underidentifying youth experiencing homelessness. For example, Education could determine which LEAs identified less than 5 percent of their economically disadvantaged youth as experiencing homelessness.
6-Month Agency Response
Fully implemented. Education developed a method using free or reduced-priced meal counts identified as less than 5 percent compared to the LEAs total homeless student enrollment, to determine LEAs that may be underidentifying youth experiencing homelessness and to assist in identifying additional youth experiencing homelessness.
In addition, Education developed procedures for the newly developed method and used the method as part of the risk assessment criteria in selecting the LEAs for Homeless Education monitoring reviews for 2020-21.
- Completion Date: May 2020
- Response Date: June 2020
California State Auditor's Assessment of 6-Month Status: Fully Implemented
60-Day Agency Response
Fully implemented. Education developed a method using free or reduced-priced meal counts identified as less than 5 percent compared to the LEAs total homeless student enrollment, to determine LEAs that may be underidentifying youth experiencing homelessness and to assist in identifying additional youth experiencing homelessness.
- Completion Date: November 2019
- Response Date: January 2020
California State Auditor's Assessment of 60-Day Status: Pending
Education only provided a spreadsheet that shows data related to LEAs' students experiencing homelessness and those enrolled in the free or reduced-price meal program, as well as Education's identification of those LEAs that did not meet the 5 percent benchmark it claims to have developed. However, Education did not provide any policy establishing this benchmark and the steps it would take with those LEAs that do not meet the 5 percent benchmark.
- Auditee did not substantiate its claim of full implementation
All Recommendations in 2019-104
Agency responses received are posted verbatim.