NYC DOE disputes Stringer audit claiming thousands of lost school computers
Hundreds – if not thousands – of computers purchased by the New York City Department of Education (DOE) in 2009 and 2011 are unaccounted for, NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer said on Tuesday, following his office’s audit of the school system’s technology purchases.
DOE says that the Comptroller used the wrong methodology, however, and that most of the “missing” equipment is still in the system.
The Comptroller’s analysts couldn’t trace more than 1,800 computers, and nearly 400 laptops and tablets were found still packed in their boxes at ten Department of Education (DOE) locations. Many of the errant computers were ordered from DOE’s Manhattan headquarters at Tweed.