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American Printing House for the Blind

Federal funding for this program helps States provide a free appropriate public education for persons with visual impairments through support for the production and distribution of educational materials in accessible formats, outreach services, and research necessary to develop and improve educational materials.

Rating

What This Rating Means

NOT PERFORMING
Results Not Demonstrated

A rating of Results Not Demonstrated (RND) indicates that a program has not been able to develop acceptable performance goals or collect data to determine whether it is performing.
  • The program does not measure the quality, relevance, and utility of its educational materials, advisory services, or research. The program currently relies on satisfaction surveys that do not demonstrate program results.
  • The Departmen of Education lacks a formal schedule and mechanism to monitor the federally funded program at the American Printing House for the Blind. It does not conduct site visits on a regular basis, document the actual use of funds in activity categories, assess program data quality, or assess the program's compliance with the Act to Promote the Education of the Blind.
  • The Department of Education has not developed efficiency measures for this program to ensure that it is operating effectively and meeting the needs of its service population.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Working to ensure that APH implements revised guidelines for evaluating the quality, utility, and relevance of products.
  • Conducting an analysis of existing performance measures based on survey data to determine if there are measures that are no longer needed.
  • Conducting an analysis of how Federal funds are being used at APH in order to ensure that the Federal program is complying with the authorizing statute.

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