Approved as
amended by ED's memorandum to OMB of 08/07/97. In addition, ED has
agreed to meet the following conditions: 1) ED shall continue to
agressively pursue expanded electronic capability, to include
on-line transmission; 2) ED will revise the methodology for
collecting data on students with disabilities in these forms to be
consistent with the new IDEA law in a manner that minimizes burden
on schools and school districts. ED shall quantitatively address
the issue of the burden generated by requiring schools to report
subcategories of mental retardation when this reporting practice
has been abandon- ed elsewhere, should the department choose to
continue to do so. ED shall report on its internal studies
regarding proxy indicators for minority overrepresentation in
special education programs as a part of its quantitative study. 3)
ED shall analyze how best to examine the issue of classroom
composition, whether to use ability grouping, achievement grouping,
or both, and for which grade levels these collections are most
appropriate; 4) ED shall consider incorporating data element(s)
regarding AP scores in (a) English and Foreign Languages and/or (b)
History and Social Sciences to improve the utility of ED 102,
question 9 by providing a comparison group for the technical AP
score data; 5) OMB recommends that for the 1997 collection,
reporting LEP by gender for suspension, corporal punishment, AP
tests, and school completion shall be optional (while the utility
of these questions is being studied). ED shall implement this term
of clearance unless ED provides sufficient evidence of the utility
of these data items to OMB prior to fielding the instrument. For
the 1998 clearance package, ED shall present an analysis of the
potential utility and burden of collecting this information to
determine whether ED should include these data items in future
reports. 6) ED shall send a copy of the documentation regarding
completing these forms electronically (referenced on page 1 of the
instruction sheets of both forms) as soon as it becomes available
in the fall; 7) ED shall make a determination, based upon analysis
of the two cycles of data, regarding the accuracy, reliability, and
utility of the question regarding children who are identified as
handicapped under Section 504 but who are not eligible for special
education under IDEA, and present this analysis to OMB, should ED
choose to continue to collect this data in 1998; 8) To the extent
that comments received from the Wyoming Dept. of Education and from
the Center for Law and Education were not answered elsewhere, the
Department shall respond to their questions prior to fielding this
instrument; 9) ED shall standardize its reporting dates, so that
schools shall uniformly be collecting information as of one date in
December, either the first or the fifteenth; 10) ED shall continue
to use the information collected in response to item 7 of ED 101
and item 3 of ED 102 to assist in the targeting of compliance
reviews, but shall not aggregate this data across districts for
data analysis, given the methodological variation between districts
and schools (respectively) in how they collect and calculate this
data; 11) ED will make appropriate changes in the instructions to
reflect changes made to the forms, and shall provide OMB with a
revised copy of both the forms and instructions; 12) OCR will
continue to work on collaborative collection efforts with
appropriate entities, both within and outside ED, including OSEP,
NCES, OBEMLA, and SDFS. This coordination will maximize the use of
extant data sources within the Department to ensure that
duplicative data are not collected; and 13) Finally, ED will
provide OMB with a briefing on the 1998 E & S Compliance Report
prior to submitting the 1998 clearance package.
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
07/31/1998
07/31/1998
31,713
0
0
295,700
0
0
0
0
0
The Elementary and Secondary School
Civil Rights Compliance Report is the vehicle for the Office for
Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education, to acquire source
material in the form of data and information regading civil rights
compliance issues in the Nation's public elementary and secondary
schools. Information from the E&S Compliance Report is used by
regional OCR staff when they consider public school districts for
compliance reviews and as source material when civil rights
complaint investigations are conducted.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
Fall 1997 Elementary and Secondary School Civil Rights Compliance Report