The U.S. Department of Education (ED) will be conducting a webinar on Wednesday, August 25, 2010, at 2:00-3:30 PM (EASTERN TIME) on the topic of “Subrecipient Monitoring.”

Purpose:  This presentation will provide recipients and subrecipients of ED grants an overview of ED’s subrecipient monitoring policies, emphasizing requirements under the Education Department General Administrative Regulations (EDGAR), OMB’s A-133 Circular and Compliance Supplement, and new requirements under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).  Additionally, ED officials and State Education Agency (SEA) representatives will highlight several monitoring best practices in use by the ED’s grantees that have been shown to be both effective in ensuring compliance and cost-efficient, including: using a risk-based monitoring approach, performing financial risk assessments, and using Web-based monitoring.  ED officials will be on hand to answer your questions.

Invitees:  The primary audience for this presentation will be all recipients and sub-recipients of ED grants. However, other state and local education officials are encouraged and welcome to participate as well.  We hope you all can join us!

 

Registration:  Registration is required to participate in this webinar.  Please register on ed.gov at: http://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/leg/recovery/rms-web-conferences.html.  Scroll-down to the “RMS Webinar Schedule & Registration” table and click on the title of the webinar to register.  After you have registered, you will receive an automatic confirmation email from “Event Notification [[log in to unmask]]” containing the link to log-in for the webinar. You will also receive an automatic reminder email the day before the webinar.

 

Audio/Sound:  Audio for this webinar will be available by webcast over the Internet; therefore, please make sure the sound on your computer and your computer speakers is turned on, un-muted, and the volume is turned up for the webinar. Closed captioning will also be provided.

 

Questions:  During the webinar, participants will be able to submit questions by text on-line at any time (when you are logged into the webinar, you will see the “Ask a Question” text box).

Additional Information:  This webinar is being conducted as part of a series of webinars to assist ED grantees and sub-grantees in managing grants under the Recovery Act.  Information on this series of webinars (including the schedule, topics, registration, feedback survey, and archives) is located on ed.gov at http://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/leg/recovery/rms-web-conferences.html.  ED Recovery Act information is available at http://www.ed.gov/recovery. 

As a reminder, ED will also be conducting a webinar on Tuesday, August 31, 2010, at 2:00-3:30 PM (EASTERN TIME) on the topic of “ED’s OCFO Recaps Cash Management Requirements for Recipients of Grants & Cooperative Agreements.”

Purpose:  The 8/31 presentation will be presented by representatives from ED’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO) and will provide recipients and sub-recipients of ED grants and cooperative agreements a recap of ED’s cash management policies, emphasizing the following:

Registration:  Registration is required to participate in this webinar.  Please register on ed.gov at: http://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/leg/recovery/rms-web-conferences.html.

 

Regards,

Tina Otter

Risk Management Service

U.S. Department of Education