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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Notice of Proposed Information
Collection Requests
Department of Education.
The IC Clearance Official,
Regulatory Information Management
Services, Office of Management, invites
comments on the proposed information
collection requests as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before July 10,
2007.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section
3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) requires
that the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) provide interested
Federal agencies and the public an early
opportunity to comment on information
collection requests. OMB may amend or
waive the requirement for public
consultation to the extent that public
participation in the approval process
would defeat the purpose of the
information collection, violate State or
Federal law, or substantially interfere
with any agency’s ability to perform its
statutory obligations. The IC Clearance
Official, Regulatory Information
Management Services, Office of
Management, publishes that notice
containing proposed information
collection requests prior to submission
of these requests to OMB. Each
proposed information collection,
grouped by office, contains the
following: (1) Type of review requested,
e.g. new, revision, extension, existing or
reinstatement; (2) Title; (3) Summary of
the collection; (4) Description of the
need for, and proposed use of, the
information; (5) Respondents and
frequency of collection; and (6)
AGENCY:
SUMMARY:
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Reporting and/or Recordkeeping
burden. OMB invites public comment.
The Department of Education is
especially interested in public comment
addressing the following issues: (1) Is
this collection necessary to the proper
functions of the Department; (2) will
this information be processed and used
in a timely manner; (3) is the estimate
of burden accurate; (4) how might the
Department enhance the quality, utility,
and clarity of the information to be
collected; and (5) how might the
Department minimize the burden of this
collection on the respondents, including
through the use of information
technology.
Dated: May 8, 2007.
Angela C. Arrington,
IC Clearance Official, Regulatory Information
Management Services, Office of Management.
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Office of Planning, Evaluation, and
Policy Development
Type of Review: Revision.
Title: Annual Mandatory Collection of
Elementary and Secondary Education
Data for EDFacts.
Frequency: Annually.
Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal
Gov’t, SEAs or LEAs.
Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour
Burden:
Responses: 59.
Burden Hours: 105,754.
Abstract: EDFacts is in the
implementation phase of a multiple year
effort to consolidate the collection of
education information about States,
Districts, and Schools in a way that
improves data quality and reduces
paperwork burden for all of the national
education partners. To minimize the
burden on the data providers, EDEN
seeks the transfer of the proposed data
as soon as it has been processed for
State, District, and School use. These
data will then be stored in EDFacts and
accessed by federal education program
managers and analysts as needed to
make program management decisions.
This process will eliminate redundant
data collections while providing for the
timeliness of data submission and use.
Additional Information: The
Department of Education (ED) is
specifically requesting the data
providers in each the State Education
Agency (SEA) to review the proposed
data elements to determine which of
these data can be provided for the
upcoming school year and which data
would be available in later years and
which data, if any, is never expected to
be available from the SEA. If
information for a data group is not
available, please provide information
beyond the fact that it is not available.
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Are there specific impediments to
providing this data that you can
describe? Is the definition for the data
group unclear or ambiguous? Do the
requested permitted values align with
the way your state collects the data?
This is very important information
because ED intends to make the
collection of these data mandatory. ED
also seeks to know if the SEA data
definitions are consistent and
compatible with the EDEN definitions
and accurately reflect the way data is
stored and used for education by the
States, Districts, and Schools. The
answers to these questions by the data
providers will influence the timing and
content of the final EDEN proposal for
the collection of this elementary and
secondary data.
Additional Information for State Data
Providers: In addition to overall public
comments, ED would also like state
education data providers to respond to
a number of specific questions that were
developed during the recent data
definition cycle.
(1) Data Groups—An underlying
purpose of the EDFacts Data Set is to
inventory the data collected by ED. That
inventory is organized into data groups
and categories. In general, each table
data group is its own file. Three data
groups (Title I SWP/TAS Participation
Tables ID 548, N or D Academic
Outcomes Table (LEAs) ID 629, and N
or D Academic Outcomes Table (State
agencies) ID 628) were split so that the
data groups would meet the definition
of ‘‘a specific aggregation (i.e. group) of
related data that is stored in EDFacts to
satisfy the specific information need of
one or more ED program office.’’ Are
there any other data groups that should
be split? Are there any data groups that
should be combined?
(2) Categories—Data on students is
collected by categories
(characterizations used to aggregate data
e.g. race/ethnicity, sex, grade level). In
some cases, the data by these
characterizations isn’t required on all
students. For example, data on the
results of NCLB assessments is required
to be aggregated by students with a
disability status (IDEA) and by students
who have been assessed as limited
English proficient. Data is not required
by statute to be aggregated by either
students without a disability status
(IDEA) or students who have not been
assessed as limited English proficient.
However, that data is useful to the
Department for both data quality and
analysis. There are times when data is
required to be aggregated for all
students. For example, data on the
provision of educational services during
expulsion is required by statute to be
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aggregated for both students with a
disability status (IDEA) and without a
disability status (IDEA). What is the
burden for the SEA when aggregating
data for only those students with the
characteristics in comparison to
aggregating for both students with the
characteristic and without it for the
following characteristics: Disability
status (IDEA), assessed for limited
English proficiency, homeless status,
homeless served under McKinney-Vento
status, economically disadvantaged
status, and migrant status?
(3) Status Files—The status files
contain the non-table data groups. The
non-table data groups included in the
NCLB Start of School Year File
(N/X101) are:
• District Totals, ID # 460
• Improvement Status—LEA, ID #662
• Improvement Status—School, ID
#34
• Integrated Technology Status, ID
#524
• Persistently Dangerous Status, ID
#36
• School Poverty Percentage, ID #31
• School Totals, ID #454
• Shared Time Status, ID #573
• Title I School Status, ID #22
• Magnet Status, ID #665
• Classroom Teachers (FTE), ID #644
The non-table data groups included in
the NCLB End of School Year File
(N/X102) are:
• Economically Disadvantaged
Students, ID #56
• Combined MEP Funds Status Table,
ID #514
• GFSA Reporting Status, ID #603
• REAP Alternative Funding
Indicator, ID #614
• Average Daily Attendance, ID #595
• Supplemental Services—Applied to
Receive Services, ID #575
• Supplemental Services—Eligible to
Receive Services, ID #578
• Supplemental Services—Received
Services, ID #546
• Supplemental Services—Funds
Spent, ID #651
• School Choice—Funds Spent, ID
#652
• Truants, ID #664
• MEP Students Eligible Regular
School Year, ID #110
Are these status files properly
organized to ensure the timely
submission of data and reduce burden?
If not, how should the non-table data
groups be organized?
(4) Migrant Education Program—The
EDFacts data set did not completely
align with the collection of data for the
Migrant Education Program (MEP), Title
I, Part C through the Consolidated State
Performance Report (CSPR) and Migrant
Child Count Form. The data groups
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collecting data on the MEP Program
have been revised accordingly. The
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chart below displays the relationship
among the data groups for students.
Type of MEP count
Type of MEP student
12-month
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Eligible ................................................................................................................................
Served (no Schoolwide) .....................................................................................................
Eligible and Served .............................................................................................................
Are the revised definitions and
comments sufficient to describe the data
that should be collected?
(5) School Operational Status—The
data group School Operational Status
(ID 531) has the following permitted
values: Open, closed, new, added,
changed agency, inactive, future school,
reopened. Is a new permitted value
needed for restructured under NCLB?
Do SEAs create new schools when a
school is restructured under NCLB? Are
new state school identification numbers
assigned when a school is restructured
under NCLB? Do schools that are
restructured under NCLB met the
definition of open which is ‘‘no
significant change in instructional levels
and programs?’’
(6) GEPA—As discussed in
Attachment B–4, the General Education
Provisions Act (GEPA), Section 424
mandates reporting on the distribution
of federal education funds to school
districts and other entities, such as
libraries, colleges and universities, state
agencies, individual schools and private
recipients. In the past, the data for the
GEPA report has been collected through
a separate collection. For the GEPA
report on FYs 2006 and 2007, the data
will be obtained for state administered
grants to LEAs through EDFacts. How
will this change impact SEAs? What
must ED do to make this transition
successful? How should ED collect data
on state administered grants that do not
go to SEAs or LEAs?
(7) Reading NCLB State
Assessments—EDFacts collects data on
participation and results of NCLB state
assessments. Data is collected on
mathematics, reading, and science. The
data on participation is collected in one
file (N/X081) using permitted values to
differentiate between the academic
subjects. The data on the results of
NCLB state assessments is collected in
separate files. For mathematics and
science, the participation file has one
permitted value for each and both have
one file to collect the results of state
assessments. For reading, the
participation file has three permitted
values and the results of state
assessments are collected using three
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Regular school
year
634 (SEA) .........
...........................
...........................
110 (school) ......
636 (SEA) .........
...........................
files. The three values and files are
entitled reading, reading/language arts,
and language arts. Can the reading
participation and results of state
assessments be collected using only one
permitted value (reading) and one file
(reading)?
Requests for copies of the proposed
information collection request may be
accessed from https://edicsweb.ed.gov,
by selecting the ‘‘Browse Pending
Collections’’ link and by clicking on
link number 3334. When you access the
information collection, click on
‘‘Download Attachments’’ to view.
Written requests for information should
be addressed to U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW.,
Potomac Center, 9th Floor, Washington,
DC 20202–4700. Requests may also be
electronically mailed to
ICDocketMgr@ed.gov or faxed to 202–
245–6623. Please specify the complete
title of the information collection when
making your request.
Comments regarding burden and/or
the collection activity requirements
should be electronically mailed to
ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Individuals who
use a telecommunications device for the
deaf (TDD) may call the Federal
Information Relay Service (FIRS) at
1–800–877–8339.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan
Program
Federal Student Aid,
Department of Education.
ACTION: Notice of the annual updates to
the Income Contingent Repayment (ICR)
plan formula for 2007.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Secretary announces the
annual updates to the ICR plan formula
for 2007. Under the William D. Ford
Federal Direct Loan (Direct Loan)
Program, borrowers may choose to repay
their student loans (Direct Subsidized
Loans, Direct Unsubsidized Loans, and
Direct Consolidation Loans) under the
ICR plan, which bases the repayment
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Summer/
intersession
637 (SEA)
635 (SEA)
amount on the borrower’s income,
family size, loan amount, and interest
rate. Each year, we adjust the formula
for calculating a borrower’s payment to
reflect changes due to inflation. This
notice contains the adjusted income
percentage factors for 2007, examples of
how the calculation of the monthly ICR
amount is performed, a constant
multiplier chart for use in performing
the calculations, and charts showing
sample repayment amounts based on
the adjusted ICR plan formula. The
adjustments for the ICR plan formula
contained in this notice are effective
from July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2008.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Don
Watson, U.S. Department of Education,
room 114I2, UCP, 400 Maryland
Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20202–
5400. Telephone: (202) 219–7037.
If you use a telecommunications
device for the deaf (TDD), you may call
the Federal Relay Service (FRS) at
1–800–877–8339.
Individuals with disabilities may
obtain this document in an alternative
format (e.g., Braille, large print,
audiotape, or computer diskette) on
request to the contact person listed
under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Direct
Loan Program borrowers may choose to
repay their Direct Subsidized Loans,
Direct Unsubsidized Loans, and Direct
Consolidation Loans under the ICR
plan. The attachments to this notice
provide updates to examples of how the
calculation of the monthly ICR amount
is performed, the updated income
percentage factors, a constant multiplier
chart for use in calculating the monthly
ICR amount, and charts showing sample
repayment amounts for single and
married borrowers.
We have updated the income
percentage factors to reflect changes
based on inflation. We have revised the
table of income percentage factors by
changing the dollar amounts of the
incomes shown by a percentage equal to
the estimated percentage change in the
Consumer Price Index for all urban
consumers from December 2006 to
December 2007. Further, we provide
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Notice of Proposed Information Collection Requests
AGENCY: Department of Education.
SUMMARY: The IC Clearance Official, Regulatory Information Management
Services, Office of Management, invites comments on the proposed
information collection requests as required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before
July 10, 2007.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) requires that the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) provide interested Federal agencies and the public an
early opportunity to comment on information collection requests. OMB
may amend or waive the requirement for public consultation to the
extent that public participation in the approval process would defeat
the purpose of the information collection, violate State or Federal
law, or substantially interfere with any agency's ability to perform
its statutory obligations. The IC Clearance Official, Regulatory
Information Management Services, Office of Management, publishes that
notice containing proposed information collection requests prior to
submission of these requests to OMB. Each proposed information
collection, grouped by office, contains the following: (1) Type of
review requested, e.g. new, revision, extension, existing or
reinstatement; (2) Title; (3) Summary of the collection; (4)
Description of the need for, and proposed use of, the information; (5)
Respondents and frequency of collection; and (6)
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Reporting and/or Recordkeeping burden. OMB invites public comment.
The Department of Education is especially interested in public
comment addressing the following issues: (1) Is this collection
necessary to the proper functions of the Department; (2) will this
information be processed and used in a timely manner; (3) is the
estimate of burden accurate; (4) how might the Department enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and
(5) how might the Department minimize the burden of this collection on
the respondents, including through the use of information technology.
Dated: May 8, 2007.
Angela C. Arrington,
IC Clearance Official, Regulatory Information Management Services,
Office of Management.
Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development
Type of Review: Revision.
Title: Annual Mandatory Collection of Elementary and Secondary
Education Data for EDFacts.
Frequency: Annually.
Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal Gov't, SEAs or LEAs.
Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour Burden:
Responses: 59.
Burden Hours: 105,754.
Abstract: EDFacts is in the implementation phase of a multiple year
effort to consolidate the collection of education information about
States, Districts, and Schools in a way that improves data quality and
reduces paperwork burden for all of the national education partners. To
minimize the burden on the data providers, EDEN seeks the transfer of
the proposed data as soon as it has been processed for State, District,
and School use. These data will then be stored in EDFacts and accessed
by federal education program managers and analysts as needed to make
program management decisions. This process will eliminate redundant
data collections while providing for the timeliness of data submission
and use.
Additional Information: The Department of Education (ED) is
specifically requesting the data providers in each the State Education
Agency (SEA) to review the proposed data elements to determine which of
these data can be provided for the upcoming school year and which data
would be available in later years and which data, if any, is never
expected to be available from the SEA. If information for a data group
is not available, please provide information beyond the fact that it is
not available. Are there specific impediments to providing this data
that you can describe? Is the definition for the data group unclear or
ambiguous? Do the requested permitted values align with the way your
state collects the data? This is very important information because ED
intends to make the collection of these data mandatory. ED also seeks
to know if the SEA data definitions are consistent and compatible with
the EDEN definitions and accurately reflect the way data is stored and
used for education by the States, Districts, and Schools. The answers
to these questions by the data providers will influence the timing and
content of the final EDEN proposal for the collection of this
elementary and secondary data.
Additional Information for State Data Providers: In addition to
overall public comments, ED would also like state education data
providers to respond to a number of specific questions that were
developed during the recent data definition cycle.
(1) Data Groups--An underlying purpose of the EDFacts Data Set is
to inventory the data collected by ED. That inventory is organized into
data groups and categories. In general, each table data group is its
own file. Three data groups (Title I SWP/TAS Participation Tables ID
548, N or D Academic Outcomes Table (LEAs) ID 629, and N or D Academic
Outcomes Table (State agencies) ID 628) were split so that the data
groups would meet the definition of ``a specific aggregation (i.e.
group) of related data that is stored in EDFacts to satisfy the
specific information need of one or more ED program office.'' Are there
any other data groups that should be split? Are there any data groups
that should be combined?
(2) Categories--Data on students is collected by categories
(characterizations used to aggregate data e.g. race/ethnicity, sex,
grade level). In some cases, the data by these characterizations isn't
required on all students. For example, data on the results of NCLB
assessments is required to be aggregated by students with a disability
status (IDEA) and by students who have been assessed as limited English
proficient. Data is not required by statute to be aggregated by either
students without a disability status (IDEA) or students who have not
been assessed as limited English proficient. However, that data is
useful to the Department for both data quality and analysis. There are
times when data is required to be aggregated for all students. For
example, data on the provision of educational services during expulsion
is required by statute to be aggregated for both students with a
disability status (IDEA) and without a disability status (IDEA). What
is the burden for the SEA when aggregating data for only those students
with the characteristics in comparison to aggregating for both students
with the characteristic and without it for the following
characteristics: Disability status (IDEA), assessed for limited English
proficiency, homeless status, homeless served under McKinney-Vento
status, economically disadvantaged status, and migrant status?
(3) Status Files--The status files contain the non-table data
groups. The non-table data groups included in the NCLB Start of School
Year File (N/X101) are:
District Totals, ID 460
Improvement Status--LEA, ID 662
Improvement Status--School, ID 34
Integrated Technology Status, ID 524
Persistently Dangerous Status, ID 36
School Poverty Percentage, ID 31
School Totals, ID 454
Shared Time Status, ID 573
Title I School Status, ID 22
Magnet Status, ID 665
Classroom Teachers (FTE), ID 644
The non-table data groups included in the NCLB End of School Year
File (N/X102) are:
Economically Disadvantaged Students, ID 56
Combined MEP Funds Status Table, ID 514
GFSA Reporting Status, ID 603
REAP Alternative Funding Indicator, ID 614
Average Daily Attendance, ID 595
Supplemental Services--Applied to Receive Services, ID
575
Supplemental Services--Eligible to Receive Services, ID
578
Supplemental Services--Received Services, ID 546
Supplemental Services--Funds Spent, ID 651
School Choice--Funds Spent, ID 652
Truants, ID 664
MEP Students Eligible Regular School Year, ID 110
Are these status files properly organized to ensure the timely
submission of data and reduce burden? If not, how should the non-table
data groups be organized?
(4) Migrant Education Program--The EDFacts data set did not
completely align with the collection of data for the Migrant Education
Program (MEP), Title I, Part C through the Consolidated State
Performance Report (CSPR) and Migrant Child Count Form. The data groups
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collecting data on the MEP Program have been revised accordingly. The
chart below displays the relationship among the data groups for
students.
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Type of MEP count
Type of MEP student ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
12-month Regular school year Summer/ intersession
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Eligible......................... 634 (SEA)................ 110 (school)............ ........................
Served (no Schoolwide)........... ......................... 636 (SEA)............... 637 (SEA)
Eligible and Served.............. ......................... ........................ 635 (SEA)
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Are the revised definitions and comments sufficient to describe the
data that should be collected?
(5) School Operational Status--The data group School Operational
Status (ID 531) has the following permitted values: Open, closed, new,
added, changed agency, inactive, future school, reopened. Is a new
permitted value needed for restructured under NCLB? Do SEAs create new
schools when a school is restructured under NCLB? Are new state school
identification numbers assigned when a school is restructured under
NCLB? Do schools that are restructured under NCLB met the definition of
open which is ``no significant change in instructional levels and
programs?''
(6) GEPA--As discussed in Attachment B-4, the General Education
Provisions Act (GEPA), Section 424 mandates reporting on the
distribution of federal education funds to school districts and other
entities, such as libraries, colleges and universities, state agencies,
individual schools and private recipients. In the past, the data for
the GEPA report has been collected through a separate collection. For
the GEPA report on FYs 2006 and 2007, the data will be obtained for
state administered grants to LEAs through EDFacts. How will this change
impact SEAs? What must ED do to make this transition successful? How
should ED collect data on state administered grants that do not go to
SEAs or LEAs?
(7) Reading NCLB State Assessments--EDFacts collects data on
participation and results of NCLB state assessments. Data is collected
on mathematics, reading, and science. The data on participation is
collected in one file (N/X081) using permitted values to differentiate
between the academic subjects. The data on the results of NCLB state
assessments is collected in separate files. For mathematics and
science, the participation file has one permitted value for each and
both have one file to collect the results of state assessments. For
reading, the participation file has three permitted values and the
results of state assessments are collected using three files. The three
values and files are entitled reading, reading/language arts, and
language arts. Can the reading participation and results of state
assessments be collected using only one permitted value (reading) and
one file (reading)?
Requests for copies of the proposed information collection request
may be accessed from https://edicsweb.ed.gov, by selecting the ``Browse
Pending Collections'' link and by clicking on link number 3334. When
you access the information collection, click on ``Download
Attachments'' to view. Written requests for information should be
addressed to U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW.,
Potomac Center, 9th Floor, Washington, DC 20202-4700. Requests may also
be electronically mailed to ICDocketMgr@ed.gov or faxed to 202-245-
6623. Please specify the complete title of the information collection
when making your request.
Comments regarding burden and/or the collection activity
requirements should be electronically mailed to ICDocketMgr@ed.gov.
Individuals who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may
call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339.
[FR Doc. 07-2354 Filed 5-10-07; 8:45 am]
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