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FUND FOR MINORITY TEACHERS IMPROPERLY USED NEARLY $3 MILLION

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We audited JTPA funds spent on a State of Florida initiative, the Florida Fund for Minority Teachers (FFMT), and found that nearly $3 million was improperly used. The Florida Legislature established the FFMT in 1996 to provide minority college students "scholarships" funded with Federal JTPA monies in exchange for their commitment to remain in Florida and teach after graduation. Students who accepted the inducements, but did not remain in Florida and teach, were required to repay, with interest, funds they had received.

We found that the State of Florida did not comply with the JTPA's provisions or Federal regulations because:

• students who received the scholarships were not dislocated workers, whom the JTPA funds were intended to serve;