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Condition: The District received tuition from other schools for 3 children who have disabilities. The District included those 3 children in their total membership enrolled without removing them from the total. Two children were included with the total children with disabilities living on Indian Land. The other child included on the application was not federally connected. The District also included a child who does not have disabilities in the total children with disabilities living on Indian Land. Criteria: The District is responsible for reporting a correct count of membership and federally connected children in various vategories, including with and without disabilities, on their Impact Aid application for whom the District provides free public education. Cause: The District's enrollment control does not include a column to indicate whether any of the children are tuition-in or tuition-out students. The District inadvertently entered an IEP date on a child without disabilities that had a name similar to an eligible child and did not perform a final review of IEP input. Procedures in place to monitor accuracy of the final application before submission were not sufficient to avoid undetected errors. Effect: The District may receive more Impact Aid under the grant application than it is eligible for federally connected children and children with disabilities. Recommendation: District personnel should enhance control procedures to monitor the application process to ensure correct information is being reported and remove children from the total for whom they receive tuition from other districts.