The Teaching Fellows project, an AmeriCorps program at the City University of New York, has come under fire in a pair of new audits by the Corporation for National and Community Service’s inspector general, according to Youth Today.

The reports found that the program, which recruits teachers for the public-school system, doesn’t fit the AmeriCorps criterion for filling an “unmet” need and recommended that the federal government should cease the program and recoup up to $75-million spent on it over the past six years.

But the university disputes the findings of Gerald Walpin, the corporation’s inspector general, as does the Corporation for National and Community Services, which says it will not ask for its money back.

Among Mr. Walpin’s criticisms of the program are that it duplicates other efforts to recruit teachers and that it was difficult to determine whether money intended to pay for program participants’ further education was going to the fellows or to the City University of New York.