This report provides results of a General Accounting Office review of the Delta Teachers Academy, a program funded primarily by the federal Department of Education to upgrade the subject area knowledge and teaching skills of elementary and secondary teachers in the Lower Mississippi Delta region (involving rural areas of Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee), one of the poorest, least developed regions in the United States. The academy does not operate its own facilities but, rather, conducts a series of 2-day teacher development sessions in participating school districts and 2-week summer institutes on college campuses in the region. The report notes that teachers participating in the Academy have generally evaluated it as effective in both increasing their understanding of academic subjects and increased their enthusiasm for teaching. In addition, teachers noted other program benefits such as the new ideas and perspectives brought by the university scholars who served as trainers. Additional planned evaluation efforts are described. (ND)