Public Accountability Report Public Accountability Report

2025 State Approving Agency
Mission Statement This agency equips veterans for successful educational experiences by training, certifying, and auditing higher education, vocational, and job training programs for receipt of GI Bill funding.
Program Goals and Objectives
  1. Actively encourage and promote the increased usage of GI Bill benefits through a vigorous and aggressive outreach program; ensure quality; and assist educational institutions and eligible persons by providing in-depth technical assistance, outreach, and liaison with all related organizations, agencies, individuals, and activities.
    1. Conduct compliance survey visits to schools and educational facilities.
      1. Meet compliance audit requirements of the federal contract.
    2. Provide technical assistance to educational institutions and vocational and job-training programs for receipt of GI Bill funding.
      1. Increase technical assistance visits.
    Source of Funds GI Education Fund Statutory Authority 38 U.S.C. 3671(a)
    Fiscal Year 2026 Target/Projected Fiscal Year 2025 Actual Fiscal Year 2025 Target/Projected Fiscal Year 2024 Actual Fiscal Year 2023 Actual
    Input Indicators
    Total expenditures - all sources (in thousands) $ 6,191.4 $ 5,139.3 $ 5,816.0 $ 5,536.3 $ 1,418.3
    Total expenditures - state appropriated funds (in thousands) $ 6,191.4 $ 5,139.3 $ 5,816.0 $ 5,536.3 $ 1,418.3
    Average monthly full-time equivalents 8.0 6.0 8.0 7.0 7.0
    Output Indicators
    Number of technical assistance, outreach, liaison, and staff development activities per USDVA cooperative agreement 484.0 556.0 625.0 733.0 704.0
    Number of educational institutions examined for compliance 74.0 55.0 68.0 77.0 48.0
    Number of requests for approval of new facilities 78.0 91.0 100.0 97.0 131.0
    Number of programs approved 10,693 12,009 12,000 15,398 18,516
    Outcome Indicators
    Percentage change in the number of technical visits -12.95% -24.15% -14.73% 4.12% 31.30%
    External Benchmarks
    Earn satisfactory USDVA quality review scores on compliance surveys and risk-based surveys per USDVA cooperative agreement (90%) (a) 91.00% N/A N/A N/A N/A
    Meet VA timeliness standards for processing approval applications per USDVA cooperative agreement (90%) 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 99.50%
    Footnotes
    A satisfactory score from the USDVA was unavailable for fiscal years 2024 and 2025.

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