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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket ID ED–2017–IES–0150]
Privacy Act of 1974; System of
Records
Institute of Education Sciences,
Department of Education.
ACTION: Notice of a new system of
records.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Privacy Act of 1974, as amended
(Privacy Act), the Department of
Education (Department) publishes this
notice of a new system of records
entitled ‘‘Impact Evaluation of
Academic Language Intervention (18–
13–43).’’ This system contains
individually identifying information
provided by individuals and school
districts that participate in the impact
evaluation. The information in this
system will be used to conduct a
rigorous study of the effectiveness of an
academic language intervention on
English Learner (EL) students’ and
disadvantaged non-EL students’
language and reading skills.
DATES: Submit your comments on this
new system of records notice on or
before July 18, 2018.
This new system of records will
become applicable upon publication in
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the Federal Register on June 18, 2018,
unless the new system of records notice
needs to be changed as a result of public
comment. The routine uses listed under
‘‘ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS
MAINTAINED IN THE SYSTEM,
INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS
AND PURPOSES OF SUCH USES’’ will
become applicable on July 18, 2018,
unless the new system of records notice
needs to be changed as a result of public
comment. The Department will publish
any significant changes to the system of
records or routine uses that result from
public comment.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments
through the Federal eRulemaking Portal
or via postal mail, commercial delivery,
or hand delivery. We will not accept
comments submitted by fax or by email
or those submitted after the comment
period. To ensure that we do not receive
duplicate copies, please submit your
comments only once. In addition, please
include the Docket ID at the top of your
comments.
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
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comments electronically. Information
on using Regulations.gov, including
instructions for accessing agency
documents, submitting comments, and
viewing the docket, is available on the
site under the ‘‘help’’ tab.
• Postal Mail, Commercial Delivery,
or Hand Delivery: If you mail or deliver
your comments about this new system
of records, address them to: Teresa
Cahalan, SORN coordinator, Institute of
Education Sciences, U.S. Department of
Education, Potomac Center Plaza, 550
12th Street SW, Room 4126,
Washington, DC 20202.
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Privacy Note: The Department’s policy is
to make all comments received from
members of the public available for public
viewing in their entirety on the Federal
eRulemaking Portal at www.regulations.gov.
Therefore, commenters should be careful to
include in their comments only information
that they wish to make publicly available.
Assistance to Individuals with
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Teresa Cahalan, SORN coordinator,
Institute of Education Sciences, U.S.
Department of Education, Potomac
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Center Plaza, 550 12th Street SW, Room
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If you use a telecommunications
device for the deaf (TDD) or a text
telephone (TTY), you may call the
Federal Relay Service, toll free, at 1–
800–877–8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Introduction:
The information in this system will be
used to conduct a rigorous study of the
effectiveness of an academic language
intervention on EL students’ and
disadvantaged non-EL students’
language and reading skills.
The study will address the following
central research questions: What is the
impact of the academic language
intervention on student achievement?
What is the impact of the academic
language intervention on classroom
instruction? Was the academic language
intervention implemented with fidelity?
Is there variation in the implementation
or impact of the academic language
intervention?
Accessible Format: Individuals with
disabilities can obtain this document in
an accessible format (e.g., braille, large
print, audiotape, or compact disc) on
request to the person listed under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
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Dated: June 13, 2018.
Mark Schneider,
Director, Institute of Education Sciences.
SYSTEM NAME AND NUMBER
Impact Evaluation of Academic
Language Intervention (18–13–43).
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION:
Unclassified.
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SYSTEM LOCATION:
MDRC, 16 East 34th Street, 19th
Floor, New York, NY 10016–4326
(contractor).
Abt Associates, 55 Wheeler Street,
Cambridge, MA 02138–1168
(contractor).
SYSTEM MANAGER(S):
Project’s contracting officer
representative, U.S. Department of
Education, Potomac Center Plaza, 550
12th Street SW, Room 4114–1,
Washington, DC 20202.
AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM:
The evaluation is authorized under
sections 171(b) and 173 of the Education
Sciences Reform Act of 2002 (ESRA) (20
U.S.C. 9561(b) and 9563) and section
8601 of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965, as amended by
the Every Student Succeeds Act (20
U.S.C. 7981).
PURPOSE(S) OF THE SYSTEM:
The information in this system will be
used to conduct a rigorous study of the
effectiveness of an academic language
intervention on English Learner (EL)
students’ and disadvantaged non-EL
students’ language and reading skills.
The study will address the following
central research questions: What is the
impact of the academic language
intervention on student achievement?
What is the impact of the academic
language intervention on classroom
instruction? Was the academic language
intervention implemented with fidelity?
Is there variation in the implementation
or impact of the academic language
intervention?
CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE
SYSTEM:
The system of records will include
individually identifying information
about teachers who participate in the
evaluation and their students. The
system will contain records on
approximately 560 teachers and 9,520
students from up to nine school
districts.
CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM:
For teachers, this information will
include, but will not necessarily be
limited to, teacher name, contact
information, ratings of teaching practice,
background characteristics, teaching
experience and training, education, and
fidelity of academic language
instruction conducted by the teacher as
assessed by the study team through
observation. For students, this
information will include, but will not
necessarily be limited to, student name,
date of birth, EL status, gender, primary
language, race/ethnicity, grade,
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eligibility for free/reduced-price
lunches, individualized education plan
status, standardized math and English/
Language Arts test scores, grades, and
retention/promotion decisions.
RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES:
Data in this system will be obtained
through: human resource and student
education records maintained by the
school districts; observations of
classroom practice conducted by the
study team; surveys of teachers
administered by the study team; and
assessments administered to students by
the study team.
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ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE
SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND
PURPOSES OF SUCH USES:
The Department may disclose
information in this system of records
under the routine uses listed in this
system of records without the consent of
the individual if the disclosure is
compatible with the purposes for which
the record was collected. The
Department may make these disclosures
on a case-by-case basis. Any disclosure
of individually identifiable information
from a record in this system must also
comply with the requirements of section
183 of the ESRA (20 U.S.C. 9573)
providing for confidentiality standards
that apply to all collection, reporting,
and publication of data by the Institute
of Education Sciences. Any disclosure
of personally identifiable information
from student education records that
were obtained from school districts
must also comply with the requirements
of the Family Educational Rights and
Privacy Act (FERPA) (20 U.S.C. 1232g;
34 CFR part 99), which protects the
privacy of student education records.
(1) Teacher Identification Disclosure.
In order for the Department to link
teacher data that the Department
maintains as part of this study to the
education records of that teacher’s
students maintained by the participating
school districts for purposes consistent
with the conduct of the study, the
Department may disclose to each
participating school district the
identities of teachers from that school
district who are participating in this
study.
(2) Contract Disclosure. If the
Department contracts with an entity for
the purposes of performing any function
that requires disclosure of records in
this system to employees of the
contractor, the Department may disclose
the records to those employees. As part
of such a contract, the Department will
require the contractor to agree to
safeguards to protect the security and
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confidentiality of the records disclosed
from this system.
(3) Research Disclosure. The Director
of the Institute of Education Sciences
may disclose information from this
system of records to qualified
researchers solely for the purpose of
carrying out specific research that is
compatible with the purpose(s) of this
system of records. The researcher must
agree to safeguards to protect the
security and confidentiality, consistent
with section 183(c) of the ESRA (20
U.S.C. 9573(c)), of the records disclosed
from this system. When personally
identifiable information from a student’s
education record will be disclosed to
the researcher, under FERPA (20 U.S.C.
1232g(b) and 34 CFR 99.31), the
researcher also must agree to comply
with the requirements in the applicable
FERPA exception to consent.
POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORAGE OF
RECORDS:
Records in this system of records are
maintained in a secure, passwordprotected electronic system.
POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR RETRIEVAL OF
RECORDS:
Records in this system will be
indexed and retrieved by a unique
number assigned to each teacher or
student that will be cross-referenced by
the individual’s name on a separate list.
The contractors’ employees who
‘‘maintain’’ (collect, maintain, use, or
disseminate) data in this system must
comply with the requirements of the
Privacy Act of 1974, as amended
(Privacy Act) and the confidentiality
standards in section 183 of the ESRA
(20 U.S.C. 9573).
POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR RETENTION AND
DISPOSAL OF RECORDS:
The Department shall submit a
retention and disposition schedule that
covers the records contained in this
system to the National Archives and
Records Administration (NARA) for
review. The records will not be
destroyed until such time as NARA
approves said schedule.
ADMINISTRATIVE, TECHNICAL, AND PHYSICAL
SAFEGUARDS:
Security protocols for this system of
records meet all required security
standards. Contractors are required to
ensure that information identifying
individuals is in files physically
separated from other research data and
electronic files identifying individuals
are separated from other electronic
research data files. Contractors will
maintain security of the complete set of
all master data files and documentation.
Access to individually identifiable data
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will be strictly controlled. All
information will be kept in locked file
cabinets during nonworking hours, and
work on hardcopy data will take place
in a single room, except for data entry.
Physical security of electronic data
also will be maintained. Security
features that protect project data will
include: Password-protected accounts
that authorize users to use the
contractors’ systems but to access only
specific network directories and
network software; user rights and
directory and file attributes that limit
those who can use particular directories
and files and determine how they can
use them; and additional security
features that the network administrators
will establish for projects as needed.
The contractors’ employees who
‘‘maintain’’ (collect, maintain, use, or
disseminate) data in this system must
comply with the requirements of the
Privacy Act and the confidentiality
standards in section 183 of the ESRA
(20 U.S.C. 9573).
RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES:
If you wish to request access to your
records, you should contact the system
manager at the address listed under
SYSTEM MANAGER AND ADDRESS.
Your request must provide necessary
particulars of your full name, address,
telephone number, and any other
identifying information requested by the
Department while processing the
request, to distinguish between
individuals with the same name. Your
request must meet the requirements of
regulations in 34 CFR 5b.5, including
proof of identity.
CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES:
If you wish to contest the content of
a record regarding you in the system of
records, contact the system manager.
Your request must meet the
requirements of the regulations in 34
CFR 5b.7.
NOTIFICATION PROCEDURES:
If you wish to inquire whether a
record exists regarding you in this
system, you should contact the system
manager at the address listed above.
Your request must provide necessary
particulars of your full name, address,
telephone number, and any other
identifying information requested by the
Department while processing the
request, to distinguish between
individuals with the same name. Your
request must meet the requirements of
the Department’s Privacy Act
regulations at 34 CFR 5b.5, including
proof of identity.
EXEMPTIONS PROMULGATED FOR THE SYSTEM:
None.
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None.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket ID ED–2018–IES–0082]
Privacy Act of 1974; System of
Records
Institute of Education Sciences,
Department of Education.
ACTION: Notice of a new system of
records.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Privacy Act of 1974, as amended
(Privacy Act), the Department of
Education (Department) publishes this
notice of a new system of records
entitled ‘‘Impact Evaluation of
Departmentalized Instruction in
Elementary Schools (18–13–44).’’ This
system contains individually identifying
information provided by individuals
and school districts that participate in
the impact evaluation. The information
in this system will be used to conduct
a rigorous study comparing the
effectiveness of elementary school
teachers specializing in one subject to
the more traditional approach of
teaching all subjects.
DATES: Submit your comments on this
new system of records notice on or
before July 18, 2018.
This new system of records will
become applicable upon publication in
the Federal Register on June 18, 2018,
unless the new system of records notice
needs to be changed as a result of public
comment. The routine uses listed under
‘‘ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS
MAINTAINED IN THE SYSTEM,
INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS
AND PURPOSES OF SUCH USES’’ will
become applicable on July 18, 2018,
unless the new system of records notice
needs to be changed as a result of public
comment. The Department will publish
any significant changes to the system of
records or routine uses that result from
public comment.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments
through the Federal eRulemaking Portal
or via postal mail, commercial delivery,
or hand delivery. We will not accept
comments submitted by fax or by email
or those submitted after the comment
period. To ensure that we do not receive
duplicate copies, please submit your
comments only once. In addition, please
include the Docket ID at the top of your
comments.
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
www.regulations.gov to submit your
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comments electronically. Information
on using Regulations.gov, including
instructions for accessing agency
documents, submitting comments, and
viewing the docket, is available on the
site under the ‘‘Help’’ tab.
• Postal Mail, Commercial Delivery,
or Hand Delivery: If you mail or deliver
your comments about this new system
of records, address them to: Teresa
Cahalan, SORN coordinator, Institute of
Education Sciences, U.S. Department of
Education, Potomac Center Plaza, 550
12th Street SW, Room 4126,
Washington, DC 20202.
Privacy Note: The Department’s
policy is to make all comments received
from members of the public available for
public viewing in their entirety on the
Federal eRulemaking Portal at
www.regulations.gov. Therefore,
commenters should be careful to
include in their comments only
information that they wish to make
publicly available.
Assistance to Individuals with
Disabilities in Reviewing the
Rulemaking Record: On request, we will
provide an appropriate accommodation
or auxiliary aid to an individual with a
disability who needs assistance to
review the comments or other
documents in the public rulemaking
record for this notice. If you want to
schedule an appointment for this type of
accommodation or auxiliary aid, please
contact the person listed under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Teresa Cahalan, SORN coordinator,
Institute of Education Sciences, U.S.
Department of Education, Potomac
Center Plaza, 550 12th Street SW, Room
4126, Washington, DC 20202 or by
email at IES_SORN@ed.gov.
If you use a telecommunications
device for the deaf (TDD) or a text
telephone (TTY), you may call the
Federal Relay Service, toll free, at
1–800–877–8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
information in this system will be used
to conduct a rigorous study of the
effectiveness of departmentalizing
instruction (where each teacher
specializes in teaching one subject to
multiple classes of students) in
elementary schools to inform effective
teacher and school improvement
strategies.
The study will address the following
central research questions: What is the
impact of departmentalization in grades
4 and 5 on teacher practices and student
achievement? Do the impacts of
departmentalization differ based on
whether principals have access to
teacher effectiveness scores when
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assigning teachers to subjects?
Secondary research questions for the
study are: How do schools structure
departmentalization? What challenges
and benefits do principals and teachers
perceive in switching to
departmentalization? How do
principals’ actual assignment of teachers
to subjects compare with assignments
based solely on baseline teacher
effectiveness scores?
Accessible Format: Individuals with
disabilities can obtain this document in
an accessible format (e.g., braille, large
print, audiotape, or compact disc) on
request to the person listed under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
Electronic Access to This Document:
The official version of this document is
the document published in the Federal
Register. You may access the official
editions of the Federal Register and the
Code of Federal Regulations for free via
the Federal Digital System at:
www.gpo.gov/fdsys. At this site, you can
view this document, as well as all other
documents of the Department published
in the Federal Register, in text or
Portable Document Format (PDF). To
use PDF, you must have Adobe Acrobat
Reader, which is available free at the
site.
You may also access documents of the
Department published in the Federal
Register by using the article search
feature at: www.federalregister.gov.
Specifically, through the advanced
search feature at this site, you can limit
your search to documents published by
the Department.
Dated: June 13, 2018.
Mark Schneider,
Director, Institute of Education Sciences.
For the reasons discussed in the
preamble, the Commissioner of the
National Center for Education Research,
Delegated the Duties of the Director of
the Institute of Education Sciences of
the U.S. Department of Education
(Department) publishes a notice of a
new system of records to read as
follows:
SYSTEM NAME AND NUMBER
Impact Evaluation of
Departmentalized Instruction in
Elementary Schools (18–13–44).
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION:
Unclassified.
SYSTEM LOCATION:
Mathematica Policy Research, P.O.
Box 2393, Princeton, NJ 08543–2393.
SYSTEM MANAGER(S):
Project’s contracting officer
representative, Institute of Education
Sciences, U.S. Department of Education,
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket ID ED-2017-IES-0150]
Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records
AGENCY: Institute of Education Sciences, Department of Education.
ACTION: Notice of a new system of records.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended
(Privacy Act), the Department of Education (Department) publishes this
notice of a new system of records entitled ``Impact Evaluation of
Academic Language Intervention (18-13-43).'' This system contains
individually identifying information provided by individuals and school
districts that participate in the impact evaluation. The information in
this system will be used to conduct a rigorous study of the
effectiveness of an academic language intervention on English Learner
(EL) students' and disadvantaged non-EL students' language and reading
skills.
DATES: Submit your comments on this new system of records notice on or
before July 18, 2018.
This new system of records will become applicable upon publication
in
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the Federal Register on June 18, 2018, unless the new system of records
notice needs to be changed as a result of public comment. The routine
uses listed under ``ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE SYSTEM,
INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND PURPOSES OF SUCH USES'' will become
applicable on July 18, 2018, unless the new system of records notice
needs to be changed as a result of public comment. The Department will
publish any significant changes to the system of records or routine
uses that result from public comment.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments through the Federal eRulemaking Portal
or via postal mail, commercial delivery, or hand delivery. We will not
accept comments submitted by fax or by email or those submitted after
the comment period. To ensure that we do not receive duplicate copies,
please submit your comments only once. In addition, please include the
Docket ID at the top of your comments.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Introduction:
The information in this system will be used to conduct a rigorous
study of the effectiveness of an academic language intervention on EL
students' and disadvantaged non-EL students' language and reading
skills.
The study will address the following central research questions:
What is the impact of the academic language intervention on student
achievement? What is the impact of the academic language intervention
on classroom instruction? Was the academic language intervention
implemented with fidelity? Is there variation in the implementation or
impact of the academic language intervention?
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Dated: June 13, 2018.
Mark Schneider,
Director, Institute of Education Sciences.
SYSTEM NAME AND NUMBER
Impact Evaluation of Academic Language Intervention (18-13-43).
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION:
Unclassified.
SYSTEM LOCATION:
MDRC, 16 East 34th Street, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10016-4326
(contractor).
Abt Associates, 55 Wheeler Street, Cambridge, MA 02138-1168
(contractor).
SYSTEM MANAGER(S):
Project's contracting officer representative, U.S. Department of
Education, Potomac Center Plaza, 550 12th Street SW, Room 4114-1,
Washington, DC 20202.
AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM:
The evaluation is authorized under sections 171(b) and 173 of the
Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 (ESRA) (20 U.S.C. 9561(b) and
9563) and section 8601 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of
1965, as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (20 U.S.C. 7981).
PURPOSE(S) OF THE SYSTEM:
The information in this system will be used to conduct a rigorous
study of the effectiveness of an academic language intervention on
English Learner (EL) students' and disadvantaged non-EL students'
language and reading skills.
The study will address the following central research questions:
What is the impact of the academic language intervention on student
achievement? What is the impact of the academic language intervention
on classroom instruction? Was the academic language intervention
implemented with fidelity? Is there variation in the implementation or
impact of the academic language intervention?
CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE SYSTEM:
The system of records will include individually identifying
information about teachers who participate in the evaluation and their
students. The system will contain records on approximately 560 teachers
and 9,520 students from up to nine school districts.
CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM:
For teachers, this information will include, but will not
necessarily be limited to, teacher name, contact information, ratings
of teaching practice, background characteristics, teaching experience
and training, education, and fidelity of academic language instruction
conducted by the teacher as assessed by the study team through
observation. For students, this information will include, but will not
necessarily be limited to, student name, date of birth, EL status,
gender, primary language, race/ethnicity, grade,
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eligibility for free/reduced-price lunches, individualized education
plan status, standardized math and English/Language Arts test scores,
grades, and retention/promotion decisions.
RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES:
Data in this system will be obtained through: human resource and
student education records maintained by the school districts;
observations of classroom practice conducted by the study team; surveys
of teachers administered by the study team; and assessments
administered to students by the study team.
ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES
OF USERS AND PURPOSES OF SUCH USES:
The Department may disclose information in this system of records
under the routine uses listed in this system of records without the
consent of the individual if the disclosure is compatible with the
purposes for which the record was collected. The Department may make
these disclosures on a case-by-case basis. Any disclosure of
individually identifiable information from a record in this system must
also comply with the requirements of section 183 of the ESRA (20 U.S.C.
9573) providing for confidentiality standards that apply to all
collection, reporting, and publication of data by the Institute of
Education Sciences. Any disclosure of personally identifiable
information from student education records that were obtained from
school districts must also comply with the requirements of the Family
Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) (20 U.S.C. 1232g; 34 CFR
part 99), which protects the privacy of student education records.
(1) Teacher Identification Disclosure. In order for the Department
to link teacher data that the Department maintains as part of this
study to the education records of that teacher's students maintained by
the participating school districts for purposes consistent with the
conduct of the study, the Department may disclose to each participating
school district the identities of teachers from that school district
who are participating in this study.
(2) Contract Disclosure. If the Department contracts with an entity
for the purposes of performing any function that requires disclosure of
records in this system to employees of the contractor, the Department
may disclose the records to those employees. As part of such a
contract, the Department will require the contractor to agree to
safeguards to protect the security and confidentiality of the records
disclosed from this system.
(3) Research Disclosure. The Director of the Institute of Education
Sciences may disclose information from this system of records to
qualified researchers solely for the purpose of carrying out specific
research that is compatible with the purpose(s) of this system of
records. The researcher must agree to safeguards to protect the
security and confidentiality, consistent with section 183(c) of the
ESRA (20 U.S.C. 9573(c)), of the records disclosed from this system.
When personally identifiable information from a student's education
record will be disclosed to the researcher, under FERPA (20 U.S.C.
1232g(b) and 34 CFR 99.31), the researcher also must agree to comply
with the requirements in the applicable FERPA exception to consent.
POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORAGE OF RECORDS:
Records in this system of records are maintained in a secure,
password-protected electronic system.
POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR RETRIEVAL OF RECORDS:
Records in this system will be indexed and retrieved by a unique
number assigned to each teacher or student that will be cross-
referenced by the individual's name on a separate list.
The contractors' employees who ``maintain'' (collect, maintain,
use, or disseminate) data in this system must comply with the
requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended (Privacy Act) and
the confidentiality standards in section 183 of the ESRA (20 U.S.C.
9573).
POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR RETENTION AND DISPOSAL OF RECORDS:
The Department shall submit a retention and disposition schedule
that covers the records contained in this system to the National
Archives and Records Administration (NARA) for review. The records will
not be destroyed until such time as NARA approves said schedule.
ADMINISTRATIVE, TECHNICAL, AND PHYSICAL SAFEGUARDS:
Security protocols for this system of records meet all required
security standards. Contractors are required to ensure that information
identifying individuals is in files physically separated from other
research data and electronic files identifying individuals are
separated from other electronic research data files. Contractors will
maintain security of the complete set of all master data files and
documentation. Access to individually identifiable data will be
strictly controlled. All information will be kept in locked file
cabinets during nonworking hours, and work on hardcopy data will take
place in a single room, except for data entry.
Physical security of electronic data also will be maintained.
Security features that protect project data will include: Password-
protected accounts that authorize users to use the contractors' systems
but to access only specific network directories and network software;
user rights and directory and file attributes that limit those who can
use particular directories and files and determine how they can use
them; and additional security features that the network administrators
will establish for projects as needed. The contractors' employees who
``maintain'' (collect, maintain, use, or disseminate) data in this
system must comply with the requirements of the Privacy Act and the
confidentiality standards in section 183 of the ESRA (20 U.S.C. 9573).
RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES:
If you wish to request access to your records, you should contact
the system manager at the address listed under SYSTEM MANAGER AND
ADDRESS. Your request must provide necessary particulars of your full
name, address, telephone number, and any other identifying information
requested by the Department while processing the request, to
distinguish between individuals with the same name. Your request must
meet the requirements of regulations in 34 CFR 5b.5, including proof of
identity.
CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES:
If you wish to contest the content of a record regarding you in the
system of records, contact the system manager. Your request must meet
the requirements of the regulations in 34 CFR 5b.7.
NOTIFICATION PROCEDURES:
If you wish to inquire whether a record exists regarding you in
this system, you should contact the system manager at the address
listed above. Your request must provide necessary particulars of your
full name, address, telephone number, and any other identifying
information requested by the Department while processing the request,
to distinguish between individuals with the same name. Your request
must meet the requirements of the Department's Privacy Act regulations
at 34 CFR 5b.5, including proof of identity.
EXEMPTIONS PROMULGATED FOR THE SYSTEM:
None.
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HISTORY:
None.
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