The National Public Education
Financial Survey (NPEFS) is an annual collection of state-level
finance data that has been included in the NCES Common Core of Data
(CCD) since FY 1982 (school year 1981-82). NPEFS provides function
expenditures by salaries, benefits, purchased services, and
supplies, and includes federal, state, and local revenues by
source. The NPEFS collection includes data on all state-run schools
from the 50 states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, the
Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin
Islands. NPEFS data are used for a wide variety of purposes,
including to calculate federal program allocations such as states’
“average per-pupil expenditure” (SPPE) for elementary and secondary
education, certain formula grant programs (e.g. Title I, Part A of
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) as
amended, Impact Aid, and Indian Education programs). Furthermore,
other federal programs, such as the Educational Technology State
Grants program (Title II Part D of the ESEA), the Education for
Homeless Children and Youth Program under Title VII of the
McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, and the Teacher Quality
State Grants program (Title II Part A of the ESEA) make use of SPPE
data indirectly because their formulas are based, in whole or in
part, on State Title I Part A allocations. On December 10, 2015, an
amendment to ESEA, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), was
signed into law. This request is to add two new items to the NPEFS
data collection (to report current expenditures disaggregated by
source of funds and to align with the State and LEA report cards
required by ESSA) and to conduct the annual NPEFS collection of
state-level finance data for FY 2016-2018.
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.