Bad news, good news. The latest GAO report about Recovery Act management paints a bleak picture about progress in educational reform at the local level. But the GAO's findings don't tell the whole story.
Greensboro North Carolina wanted to make sure that three Recovery Act grants for energy efficiency are spent wisely. The key was to use the smaller grant to inform the work on the larger ones.
The GAO asked state housing finance agencies about the ways they were handling their stimulus-related job counting and reporting responsibilities. Here's a selection of the responses it received.