OLA Special Review — Minnesota Department of Education Oversight of Feeding Our Future (June 2024)

Source: Office of the Legislative Auditor, Minnesota · Document date: 2024-06-15 · Type: Audit Report

OLA Special Review evaluating the Minnesota Department of Education's (MDE) administration of the federal CACFP funds that flowed through Feeding Our Future. Documents MDE's failure to act on multiple early warning signs and details the agency's pre- and post-FBI-raid handling of FOF-affiliated sites.

Significance: The authoritative state-government post-mortem of the MDE oversight failure. Used as the baseline for the uncharged-sites analysis and the fraud-oversight-compared investigation, and quoted directly in the FOF timeline.

Tags: OLA, special review, MDE, Feeding Our Future, CACFP, oversight failure