School Audits

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This page contains the Independent Activity Fund Audits of local school accounts that have been obtained via Maryland Public Information Act requests by members of the Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland and others.

IAF Audits are to be kept in the school's library and available for public inspection according to MCPS policy. The MCPS policy also states that parents and students are to be advised of the availability of these audits. Please check with your local school to see if their IAF Audit is available in the library. If you obtain a copy of the IAF Audit from your local school, please forward it to the Parents' Coalition and we will post it on this page.

INDEPENDENT ACTIVITY FUND AUDITS FOR MCPS SCHOOLS

What happens to money collected at local schools through student paid fees?

Money collected by local principals for curricular fees and other student fees (yearbook, field trips etc.) goes into an Independent Activity Fund (IAF) that is controlled by the local school Principal.

The money collected by the local principal in the IAF is to be used for the benefit of students according to MCPS Policy as outlined in the MCPS Manual of Policies and Procedures for Administering Independent Activity Funds.

Here are news reports on MCPS school audits made public by the Parents' Coalition:

WTOP: Audit of High School Shows Lots of Red Ink

Examiner: Audit: School Staff Misused Funds

WJLA: School Money Spent on Staff Perks at School

Washington Post: Audits Obtained by Parents Show More Misspent Funds

Washington Post: In Md., Teed About Principal's Golf Cart

Parents' Coalition blog: Audit reveals ongoing financial disarray at Whitman High School

Gazette: Audits reveal loose spending practices in high schools

Click on the links below to read MCPS audits of individual schools
and see how the money collected is really being used.

BCC HS May 2009	Kennedy HS Dec 2009	Seneca Valley HS Dec 2009 Seneca Valley HS Jan 2009
BCC HS March 2008	Kennedy HS Aug 2008	Seneca Valley HS May 2008
Blair HS April 2009	Magruder HS June 2009
Blair HS Sept 2007	Magruder HS Jan 2008	Sherwood HS April 2010 Sherwood HS Dec 2008
Blair HS March 2007	Magruder HS Oct 2006	Sherwood HS July 2007
	Magruder HS Sept 2005
Blake HS April 2009	Magruder HS May 2004	Springbrook HS Oct 2008
Blake HS Nov 2007	Northwest HS Aug 2009
	Northwest HS May 2008	Watkins Mill HS June 2009
Churchill HS July 2009		Watkins Mill HS Jan 2008
Churchill HS April 2008
Churchill HS March 2007	Northwood HS May 2009	Walter Johnson HS Nov 2009
Clarksburg HS Oct 2009	Northwood HS Sept 2007	Walter Johnson HS Sept 2008
Clarksburg HS June 2008	Paint Branch HS June 2009
	Paint Branch HS March 2008	Wheaton HS June 2009
		Wheaton HS Nov 2007
Damascus HS Jan 2009	Poolesville HS Oct 2008
	Poolesville HS Nov 2007
Edison HS Sept 2009		Whitman HS April 2009
Edison HS Nov 2007	Quince Orchard HS May 2009	Whitman HS April 2007
	Quince Orchard HS Jan 2008
	Richard Mont HS Nov 2009
Einstein HS April 2009	Richard Mont HS July 2008
Einstein HS Sept 2007	Richard Mont HS March 2007
		Wootton HS Nov 2007
Gaithersburg HS Sept 2009	Rockville HS June 2009	Wootton HS June 2009
Gaithersburg HS June 2008	Rockville HS Dec 2007

Hoover MS Sept 2008	Julius West MS Nov 2008	Montgomery Village MS Oct 2007
Cabin John MS June 2009	White Oak MS Nov 2008	Pyle MS Sept 2008
	Westland MS June 2009	Wood MS Oct 2009

Daly ES Jan 2008	Flower Hill ES Feb 2006	Glenhaven ES May 2007 Westbrook ES March 2009 Westbrook ES Oct 2005