No
material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved
collection
No
Emergency
02/12/2021
03/16/2021
Requested
Previously Approved
08/31/2021
08/31/2021
36,030
36,030
18,016
18,016
0
0
NCES requests emergency clearance to
allow us to comply with the January 21, 2021 Executive Order on
Supporting the Reopening and Continuing Operation of Schools and
Early Childhood Education Providers which states that the
Department of Education must “coordinate with the Director of the
Institute of Education Sciences to facilitate, consistent with
applicable law, the collection of data necessary to fully
understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on students and
educators, including data on the status of in-person learning.
These data shall be disaggregated by student demographics,
including race, ethnicity, disability, English-language-learner
status, and free or reduced lunch status or other appropriate
indicators of family income.” Normal clearance procedures would not
allow IES to comply with the intent of this EO. NCES will publish a
Federal Register Notice soliciting 30 days of public comment on
this collection concurrent with data collection. The National
Center for Education Statistics (NCES), in the Institute of
Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education, will
oversee the survey collection, which is designed to collect vital
data with the least possible burden on schools. With the voluntary
participation of educators and school leaders across the country,
NCES will be able to report the percentages of students who
received instruction remotely, in-person, or in a hybrid
instructional mode for selected districts, states, and the nation.
NCES will provide these data for various student groups, in
addition to information about attendance rates, in an online
dashboard. Data will be collected monthly beginning February 2021
and running through June 2021. The survey will collect data from
approximately 3,500 schools that enroll fourth-graders and an equal
number of schools that enroll eighth-graders. A school coordinator
will be identified in each school to complete the survey, which
will take 30 minutes of each coordinator’s time for each month’s
response to the survey. The study will maximize the use of federal
dollars by utilizing the existing online data collection systems
and infrastructure used for the Nation's Report Card, also known as
the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).
NCES requests emergency
clearance to allow us to comply with the January 21, 2021 Executive
Order (EO) on Supporting the Reopening and Continuing Operation of
Schools and Early Childhood Education Providers which states that
the Department of Education must “coordinate with the Director of
the Institute of Education Sciences to facilitate, consistent with
applicable law, the collection of data necessary to fully
understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on students and
educators, including data on the status of in-person learning.
These data shall be disaggregated by student demographics,
including race, ethnicity, disability, English-language-learner
status, and free or reduced lunch status or other appropriate
indicators of family income.” Normal clearance procedures would not
allow IES to comply with the intent of this EO. NCES will publish a
Federal Register Notice soliciting 30 days of public comment on
this collection concurrent with data collection.
PL:
Pub.L. 107 - 279 303 Name of Law: National Assessment of
Educational Progress Authorization Act
EO: EO 14000 Name/Subject of EO: Executive Order on
Supporting the Reopening and Continuing Operation o
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.