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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Notice of Submission for OMB Review
Department of Education.
Comment request.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Director, Information
Collection Clearance Division, Privacy,
Information and Records Management
Services, Office of Management, invites
comments on the submission for OMB
review as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13).
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before July 14,
2011.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be addressed to the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Attention: Education Desk Officer,
Office of Management and Budget, 725
17th Street, NW., Room 10222, New
Executive Office Building, Washington,
DC 20503, be faxed to (202) 395–5806 or
e-mailed to
oira_submission@omb.eop.gov with a
cc: to ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Please note
that written comments received in
response to this notice will be
considered public records.
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. The OMB is
particularly interested in comments
which: (1) Evaluate whether the
proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility; (2) Evaluate the
accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (4) Minimize the burden
of the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through
the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
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SUMMARY:
Dated: June 8, 2011.
Darrin A. King,
Director, Information Collection Clearance
Division, Privacy, Information and Records
Management Services, Office of Management.
Federal Student Aid
Type of Review: Revision
Title of Collection: Experimental Sites
Initiative—Data Collection Instrument
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OMB Control Number: 1845–0066
Agency Form Number(s): N/A
Frequency of Responses: Annually
Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal
Government, State Educational
Agencies or Local Educational Agencies
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 85
Total Estimated Annual Burden
Hours: 935
Abstract: This data collection
instrument will be used to collect
specific information/performance data
for analysis of seven experiments. This
effort will assist the Department in
obtaining and compiling information to
help determine change in the
administration and delivery of Title IV
programs. Institutions volunteer to
become an experimental site to provide
recommendations on the impact and
effectiveness of proposed regulations or
new management initiatives.
Copies of the information collection
submission for OMB review may be
accessed from the RegInfo.gov Web site
at https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain or from the Department’s Web
site at https://edicsweb.ed.gov, by
selecting the ‘‘Browse Pending
Collections’’ link and by clicking on
link number 4524. 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.,
LBJ, Washington, DC 20202–4537.
Requests may also be electronically
mailed to the Internet address
ICDocketMgr@ed.gov or faxed to 202–
401–0920. Please specify the complete
title of the information collection and
OMB Control Number when making
your request.
Individuals who use a
telecommunications device for the deaf
(TDD) may call the Federal Information
Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–
8339.
DATES:
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Department of Education
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Type of Review: Extension
Title of Collection: Generic Plan for
Customer Satisfaction Surveys and
Focus Groups
OMB Control Number: 1800–0011
Agency Form Number(s): N/A
Frequency of Responses: On occasion
Affected Public: Individuals or
households
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 451,326
Total Estimated Annual Burden
Hours: 114,885
Abstract: Surveys to be considered
under this generic will only include
those surveys that improve customer
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Notice of Submission for OMB Review
Department of Education.
Comment request.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Director, Information
Collection Clearance Division, Privacy,
Information and Records Management
Services, Office of Management, invites
comments on the submission for OMB
review as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13).
SUMMARY:
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Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before July 14,
2011.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be addressed to the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Attention: Education Desk Officer,
Office of Management and Budget, 725
17th Street, NW., Room 10222, New
Executive Office Building, Washington,
DC 20503, be faxed to (202) 395–5806 or
e-mailed to
oira_submission@omb.eop.gov with a
cc: to ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Please note
that written comments received in
response to this notice will be
considered public records.
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. The OMB is
particularly interested in comments
which: (1) Evaluate whether the
proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility; (2) Evaluate the
accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (4) Minimize the burden
of the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through
the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Dated: June 8, 2011.
Darrin A. King,
Director, Information Collection Clearance
Division, Privacy, Information and Records
Management Services, Office of Management.
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service or collect feedback about a
service provided to individuals or
entities directly served by Department
of Education (ED). The results of these
customer surveys will help ED managers
plan and implement program
improvements and other customer
satisfaction initiatives. Focus groups
that will be considered under the
generic clearance will assess customer
satisfaction with a direct service, or will
be designed to inform a customer
satisfaction survey ED is considering.
Surveys that have the potential to
influence policy will not be considered
under this generic clearance.
Copies of the information collection
submission for OMB review may be
accessed from the RegInfo.gov Web site
at https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain or from the Department’s Web
site at https://edicsweb.ed.gov, by
selecting the ‘‘Browse Pending
Collections’’ link and by clicking on
link number 4515. 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.,
LBJ, Washington, D.C. 20202–4537.
Requests may also be electronically
mailed to the Internet address
ICDocketMgr@ed.gov or faxed to 202–
401–0920. Please specify the complete
title of the information collection and
OMB Control Number when making
your request.
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
Applications for New Awards; Gaining
Early Awareness and Readiness for
Undergraduate Programs
Office of Postsecondary
Education, Department of Education.
ACTION: Notice.
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AGENCY:
Overview Information
Gaining Early Awareness and
Readiness for Undergraduate Programs;
Notice inviting applications for new
awards for fiscal year (FY) 2011.
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
(CFDA) Number: 84.334A (Partnership
grants).
Applications Available: June 14,
2011.
Deadline for Transmittal of
Applications: July 14, 2011.
DATES:
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Deadline for Intergovernmental
Review: September 12, 2011.
Full Text of Announcement
I. Funding Opportunity Description
Purpose of Program: The GEAR UP
program is a discretionary grant
program that provides financial support
for academic and related support
services that eligible low-income
students, including students with
disabilities, need to enable them to
obtain a secondary school diploma and
to prepare for and succeed in
postsecondary education.
Priorities: This notice contains two
competitive preference priorities and
one invitational priority.
Background: The President has set a
clear goal for our education system: By
2020, the United States will once again
lead the world in college completion. To
achieve this goal, the Department has
consistently encouraged four key
reforms to improve elementary and
secondary education—in particular the
Department is seeking to: improve the
effectiveness of teachers and school
leaders and promote equity in the
distribution of effective teachers and
school leaders; strengthen the use of
data to improve teaching and learning;
provide high-quality instruction based
on rigorous college- and career-ready
standards and measure students’
mastery of standards using high-quality
assessments aligned with those
standards; and turn around the lowestperforming schools.
The Department views the GEAR UP
program as a critical component in the
effort to improve the quality of
secondary schools so that more students
are well prepared for college and
careers. In order to more strategically
align GEAR UP with these overarching
reform strategies for school
improvement, the Department is
announcing two competitive preference
priorities for this competition. The
Department also proposes one
invitational priority for this
competition.
We are using two priorities from the
Department’s notice of final
supplemental priorities and definitions
for discretionary grant programs,
published in the Federal Register on
December 15, 2010 (75 FR 78486).
The Department is using Competitive
Preference Priority 1—Turning Around
Persistently Lowest-Achieving Schools
because an essential element in
strengthening our education system is
dramatic improvement of student
performance in each State’s persistently
lowest-achieving schools. These schools
often require intensive interventions to
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improve the school culture and climate,
strengthen the school staff and
instructional program, increase student
attendance and enrollment in advanced
courses, provide more time for learning,
and ensure that social services and
community support are available for
students in order to raise student
achievement, graduation rates, and
college enrollment rates. In addition,
students in these schools can benefit
from participating in programs, such as
GEAR UP, that offer additional services
designed to increase student success.
The Department is interested in seeing
strong plans to support improvements
in student achievement and outcomes
within these schools.
The Department is using Competitive
Preference Priority 2—Enabling More
Data-Based Decision-Making because
the Department believes that the
effective use of data for informed
decision-making is essential to the
continuous improvement of educational
results. Specifically, this priority is for
projects that are designed to provide
educators, as well as families and other
key stakeholders, with high-quality data
and the capacity and training to use
those data. The data may be used to
respond to the learning and academic
needs of students, increase student
achievement (as defined in this notice),
improve educator effectiveness, inform
professional development practices and
approaches, understand the culture and
climate of their schools and institutions,
and make informed decisions that
increase overall program effectiveness.
We believe that inclusion of this
competitive preference priority is
important because accurate, timely,
relevant, and appropriate data are key to
knowing what is working for students
and what is not. Data can tell us which
students are on track to college- and
career-readiness and which students
need additional support, which
instructional strategies are working,
which schools or institutions are
successfully improving student learning
and performance, and which teachers or
faculty excel in increasing student
achievement so that they can, for
example, be given the opportunity to
coach others or to lead communities of
professional practice.
Competitive Preference Priorities. The
competitive preference priorities are
from the notice of final supplemental
priorities and definitions for
discretionary grant programs, published
in the Federal Register on December 15,
2010 (75 FR 78486). For FY 2011 and
any subsequent year in which we make
awards from the list of unfunded
applicants from this competition, these
priorities are competitive preference
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Notice of Submission for OMB Review
AGENCY: Department of Education.
ACTION: Comment request.
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SUMMARY: The Director, Information Collection Clearance Division,
Privacy, Information and Records Management Services, Office of
Management, invites comments on the submission for OMB review as
required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13).
DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before
July 14, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be addressed to the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs, Attention: Education Desk Officer,
Office of Management and Budget, 725 17th Street, NW., Room 10222, New
Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 20503, be faxed to (202) 395-
5806 or e-mailed to oira_submission@omb.eop.gov with a cc: to
ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Please note that written comments received in
response to this notice will be considered public records.
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. The
OMB is particularly interested in comments which: (1) Evaluate whether
the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility; (2) Evaluate the accuracy of
the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of
information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions
used; (3) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information
to be collected; and (4) Minimize the burden of the collection of
information on those who are to respond, including through the use of
appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of information technology.
Dated: June 8, 2011.
Darrin A. King,
Director, Information Collection Clearance Division, Privacy,
Information and Records Management Services, Office of Management.
Department of Education
Type of Review: Extension
Title of Collection: Generic Plan for Customer Satisfaction Surveys
and Focus Groups
OMB Control Number: 1800-0011
Agency Form Number(s): N/A
Frequency of Responses: On occasion
Affected Public: Individuals or households
Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 451,326
Total Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 114,885
Abstract: Surveys to be considered under this generic will only
include those surveys that improve customer
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service or collect feedback about a service provided to individuals or
entities directly served by Department of Education (ED). The results
of these customer surveys will help ED managers plan and implement
program improvements and other customer satisfaction initiatives. Focus
groups that will be considered under the generic clearance will assess
customer satisfaction with a direct service, or will be designed to
inform a customer satisfaction survey ED is considering. Surveys that
have the potential to influence policy will not be considered under
this generic clearance.
Copies of the information collection submission for OMB review may
be accessed from the RegInfo.gov Web site at https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain or from the Department's Web site at https://edicsweb.ed.gov, by selecting the ``Browse Pending Collections'' link
and by clicking on link number 4515. 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., LBJ, Washington, D.C. 20202-4537.
Requests may also be electronically mailed to the Internet address
ICDocketMgr@ed.gov or faxed to 202-401-0920. Please specify the
complete title of the information collection and OMB Control Number
when making your request.
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. 2011-14646 Filed 6-13-11; 8:45 am]
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