educational management service providers of the school entity.
(8) Review of employe files for compliance purposes but in
accordance with Federal and State regulations governing
confidentiality protection for employes.
(9) Any other test the department deems appropriate.
(b) The certified audit as required by subsection (a) is a
public document and shall be made available on the department's
publicly accessible Internet website and the school's publicly
accessible Internet website, if applicable.
(c) A school may be subject to an annual audit by the
department, its local school board or the Auditor General, in
addition to any other audits required by Federal law or this
act. Schools located within a school district of the first class
may be subject to an annual audit by the controller of the city
of the first class.
(d) A school shall annually provide a copy of its annual
budget for the operation of the school that identifies the
following:
(1) The source of funding for all expenditures.
(2) Where funding is provided by a school foundation,
including any educational management service providers, the
amount of funds and a description of the use of the funds.
(3) The salaries of all administrators of the school.
(e) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the school
and an affiliated school foundation and any educational
management service providers of the school shall make copies of
its annual Federal and State tax filings available upon request
and on the school's, school foundation's or educational
management service provider's publicly accessible Internet
website, including Internal Revenue Service Code Form 990,
Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax and all related
schedules and appendices. The school foundation and any
educational management service providers of the school shall
also make copies of its annual budget available upon request and
on the school foundation's or educational management service
provider's publicly accessible Internet website within thirty
(30) days of the close of the foundation's or educational
management service provider's fiscal year. The annual budget
must include the salaries of all employes of the school
foundation or of the educational management service providers of
the school.
(f) A school entity shall not make a payment to an
educational management service provider that exceeds five (5)
per centum of its per pupil cost.
(g) All operations of an educational management service
provider for a school pursuant to a contract or agreement with
the school shall be subject to public audit requirements under
section 2553. In addition, funds provided by a school to an
educational management service provider for a school pursuant to
a contract or agreement with the school and the use of the funds
by an educational management service provider shall be subject
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