North Carolina’s state auditor and education leaders are clashing over an audit that found several school districts failed to comply with student attendance laws during the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The General Assembly directed the State Auditor Beth Wood’s office in late 2021 to conduct a performance audit that analyzed truancy policies and procedures for six public school districts in light of concerns that “missing students” stopped attending classes during the pandemic.
“Instead of recommendations to get students back to school, our agency and six of our school districts have been unnecessarily reprimanded,” State Superintendent Catherine Truitt said in a news release. “Much of how this report was conducted is an example of how state government time and taxpayer dollars and resources should not be used.” Truitt, a Republican, and Wood, a Democrat, are elected statewide.
Auditors said they were only able to get complete information for the Henderson County Public Schools. They also examined the Charlotte-Mecklenburg and Winston-Salem/Forsyth County schools, as well as the Johnston, Hyde and Robeson county schools. The report said the data problems led to more work time by auditors, leading to $205,000 in additional costs. But DPI said the delay was caused by the auditor’s office making “multiple changes in scope and lack of understanding” of attendance policies and the wording used by districts in their student attendance policies.
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