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Secretary establishes a data collection
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information on their project’s
performance in annual performance
reports and additional performance data
to the Department (34 CFR 75.590 and
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The Department will also closely
monitor the extent to which the
products and services provided by the
Center meet needs identified by
stakeholders and may require the Center
to report on such alignment in its
annual and final performance reports.
6. Continuation Awards: In making a
continuation award under 34 CFR
75.253, the Secretary considers, among
other things: whether a grantee has
made substantial progress in achieving
the goals and objectives of the project;
whether the grantee has expended funds
in a manner that is consistent with its
approved application and budget; and,
if the Secretary has established
performance measurement
requirements, whether the grantee has
made substantial progress in achieving
the performance targets in the grantee’s
approved application.
In making a continuation award, the
Secretary also considers whether the
grantee is operating in compliance with
the assurances in its approved
application, including those applicable
to Federal civil rights laws that prohibit
discrimination in programs or activities
receiving Federal financial assistance
from the Department (34 CFR 100.4,
104.5, 106.4, 108.8, and 110.23).
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FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT,
individuals with disabilities can obtain
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BILLING CODE 4000–01–P
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket ID ED–2022–OPEPD–0082]
Request for Information Regarding
Higher Education Act (HEA) Pooled
Evaluation
Office of Planning, Evaluation
and Policy Development, Department of
Education.
ACTION: Request for information.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Department of
Education (Department) is requesting
information in the form of written
comments that may include
information, research, and suggestions
regarding the Department’s
implementation of the new authority
provided to the Department in the
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022,
to reserve funding from certain
programs authorized by the Higher
Education Act of 1965, as amended
(HEA), for the purpose of carrying out
rigorous and independent evaluations
and conducting data collection and
analysis of such programs. The Office of
Planning, Evaluation and Policy
Development (OPEPD) solicits these
comments to identify potential
evaluation, data collection, and analysis
activities that could be undertaken with
these funds that would increase
knowledge about, and improve
administration of, programs authorized
under the HEA, and build evidence of
effective practices to improve student
outcomes in these programs. To use and
build evidence to support opportunities
for students, the Department is
particularly interested in evaluation,
data collection, and analysis activities
that can inform efforts to make higher
education more inclusive and affordable
and ensure pathways through higher
education lead to successful careers.
The Department is particularly
SUMMARY:
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interested in activities aligned to
Administration priorities including but
not limited to strengthening community
college capacity; holistic student
supports; promoting postsecondary
retention and completion; and
strengthening alignment across
institutions of higher education, K–12,
and the public workforce system.
DATES: We must receive your comments
on or before February 17, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Comments must be
submitted via the Federal eRulemaking
Portal at regulations.gov. However, if
you require an accommodation or
cannot otherwise submit your
comments via regulations.gov, please
contact the program contact person
listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT.
The Department strongly encourages
you to submit any comments or
attachments in Microsoft Word format.
If you must submit a comment in Adobe
Portable Document Format (PDF), the
Department strongly encourages you to
convert the PDF to ‘‘print-to-PDF’’
format, or to use some other commonly
used searchable text format. Please do
not submit the PDF in a scanned format.
Using a print-to-PDF format allows the
Department to electronically search and
copy certain portions of your
submissions to assist in the rulemaking
process.
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
www.regulations.gov to submit your
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 ‘‘FAQ.’’
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 include in their
comments only information about
themselves that they wish to make
publicly available. Commenters should
not include in their comments any
information that identifies other
individuals or that permits readers to
identify other individuals.
This is a request for information (RFI)
only. This RFI is not a request for
proposals (RFP) or a promise to issue an
RFP or a notice inviting applications.
This RFI does not commit the
Department to contract for any supply
or service whatsoever. Further, we are
not seeking proposals and will not
accept unsolicited proposals. The
Department will not pay for any
information or administrative costs that
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you may incur in responding to this RFI.
The documents and information
submitted in response to this RFI
become the property of the U.S.
Government and will not be returned.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John
English, U.S. Department of Education,
400 Maryland Avenue SW Room
6W306, Washington, DC 20202.
Telephone: (202) 260–5787. Email:
john.english@ed.gov.
If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or
have a speech disability and wish to
access telecommunications relay
services, please dial 7–1–1.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Department administers dozens
of programs authorized by the HEA.
These programs include (but are not
limited to): the Student Financial
Assistance Programs, including the
William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan
Program, the Federal Pell Grant
Program, the Teacher Education
Assistance for College and Higher
Education (TEACH) Grant Program, the
Federal Work-Study Program (FWS),
and the Supplemental Educational
Grant Program (FSEOG), administered
by Federal Student Aid (FSA); the
Student Service programs administered
by the Office of Postsecondary
Education (OPE), including the Federal
TRIO Programs, Gaining Early
Awareness and Readiness for
Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP),
Graduate Assistance in Areas of
National Need (GAANN), and Child
Care Access Means Parents in Schools
(CCAMPIS); the Institutional Service
programs administered by OPE that are
designed to increase capacity of
Historically Black Colleges and
Universities (HBCUs), Tribal Colleges
and Universities (TCUs) and other
Minority-Serving institutions (MSIs) to
provide high-quality education to more
students; the various special focus
competitions supported under the Fund
for the Improvement of Postsecondary
Education and administered by OPE; the
International and Foreign Language
Education Domestic Programs; and the
Special Programs for Migrant Students
and Teacher Quality Partnerships
Programs administered by the Office of
Elementary and Secondary Education.
As reflected in the Department’s
Strategic Plan and Learning Agenda
(available at https://evaluation.gov),
high-quality evaluation, data collection,
and analysis are important priorities.
They are key to the Department’s
administration of programs and
essential to Congress’s and the public’s
understanding of these programs. In
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addition, high-quality program
evaluation can help identify effective
strategies that can be disseminated and
scaled more broadly. Very few HEAauthorized programs allow the
Department to use program funding for
evaluation, technical assistance, or data
collection and analysis, resulting in
missed opportunities for the Department
to be able to increase knowledge of
effective practices in higher education.
The Consolidated Appropriations Act,
2022 (Pub. L. 117–103), includes a new
HEA Pooled Evaluation authority that
authorizes the Secretary to reserve up to
0.5 percent from the appropriation for
any HEA-authorized program—
excluding the Pell Grant Program and
Student Aid Administration—for the
purpose of carrying out rigorous and
independent evaluations and to collect
and analyze outcome data for any
program authorized by the HEA. Fiscal
year (FY) 2022 funding that is reserved
for HEA Pooled Evaluation is available
for obligation through September 30,
2024. To date, the Department has
reserved $6,904,996 under the HEA
Pooled Evaluation authority. The
Department must report to the House
and Senate Appropriations and
Authorizing Committees on the
activities to be carried out under this
authority, as well as the funding used
and the impact on grantees, 30 days
prior to obligation of funds. This
authority was requested in the
President’s Budget in previous years but
was included in the Department’s
appropriations legislation for the first
time in FY 2022. The Administration
has requested the authority again in the
FY 2023 President’s Budget request and
hopes Congress continues to include
this authority in future appropriations.
The Department will contemplate
comments received from this RFI when
planning to use future funding it may
receive from future appropriations
under this authority.
The Department is committed to using
this authority in a way that minimizes
the impact on our grantees and students
while also allocating funding to the
highest priority evaluation, data
collection, and analysis activities. To
ensure that we harness the enormous
potential of this new authority, we are,
through this RFI, requesting information
from the public on ideas for how best
to use these funds. Our hope is to
identify and consider the widest
possible range of ideas. Note that we see
this as a long-term effort; as such, ideas
for evaluation, data collection, and
analysis that are not funded initially
may continue to be considered, pending
the reservation of funds and whether
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this authority is retained in future
Department appropriations acts.
When submitting ideas for potential
uses of HEA Pooled Evaluation funding,
please note that funding must be used
in connection with evaluation, data
collection, and analysis of an HEAauthorized program, including the
student financial aid programs. When
responding to this RFI, please address
one or more of the following questions
related to your proposed activity:
1. What is the goal of this evaluation,
or data collection, and analysis activity?
How would this activity build evidence
that supports strategies that promote
student success, make education more
inclusive and affordable, and ensure
pathways through higher education lead
to successful careers?
2. What specific research question or
questions is this evaluation, data
collection, and analysis activity
designed to answer?
3. How would the proposed activity
help evaluate, or otherwise provide
important information on, an HEA
program or programs?
4. If the activity proposed is an
evaluation, are you aware of other
evaluations on this topic? If so, please
identify the relevant evaluations.
5. Does the proposed activity involve
new data collection and analysis or the
analysis of existing data?
6. Are there any additional benefits of
conducting this activity that have not
been previously identified?
We will review every comment, and
the comments in response to this RFI
will be publicly available on the Federal
eRulemaking Portal at
www.regulations.gov. Please note that
the Department will not directly
respond to comments.
Accessible Format: On request to the
program contact person listed under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT,
individuals with disabilities can obtain
this document in an accessible format.
The Department will provide the
requestor with an accessible format that
may include Rich Text Format (RTF) or
text format (txt), a thumb drive, an MP3
file, braille, large print, audiotape, or
compact disc, or other accessible format.
Electronic Access to This Document:
The official version of this document is
the document published in the Federal
Register. You may access the official
edition of the Federal Register and the
Code of Federal Regulations at
www.govinfo.gov. At this site you can
view this document, as well as all other
documents of this Department
published in the Federal Register, in
text or Portable Document Format
(PDF). To use PDF you must have
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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.
Program Authority: Consolidated
Appropriations Act, 2022.
Roberto Rodriguez,
Assistant Secretary, Office of Planning,
Evaluation, and Policy Development.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket No. ED–2022–SCC–0153]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Comment Request; State
Education Agency, Local Educational
Agency, and School Data Collection
and Reporting Under ESEA, Title I,
Part A
Office of Elementary and
Secondary Education (OESE),
Department of Education (ED).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of
1995, the Department is proposing an
extension without change of a currently
approved information collection request
(ICR).
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before February
17, 2023.
ADDRESSES: To access and review all the
documents related to the information
collection listed in this notice, please
use https://www.regulations.gov by
searching the Docket ID number ED–
2022–SCC–0153. Comments submitted
in response to this notice should be
submitted electronically through the
Federal eRulemaking Portal at https://
www.regulations.gov by selecting the
Docket ID number or via postal mail,
commercial delivery, or hand delivery.
If the regulations.gov site is not
available to the public for any reason,
the Department will temporarily accept
comments at ICDocketMgr@ed.gov.
Please include the docket ID number
and the title of the information
collection request when requesting
documents or submitting comments.
Please note that comments submitted
after the comment period will not be
accepted. Written requests for
information or comments submitted by
postal mail or delivery should be
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addressed to the Manager of the
Strategic Collections and Clearance
Governance and Strategy Division, U.S.
Department of Education, 400 Maryland
Ave. SW, LBJ, Room 6W203,
Washington, DC 20202–8240.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
specific questions related to collection
activities, please contact Melissa Siry,
202–260–0926.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Department, in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA)
(44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the
general public and Federal agencies
with an opportunity to comment on
proposed, revised, and continuing
collections of information. This helps
the Department assess the impact of its
information collection requirements and
minimize the public’s reporting burden.
It also helps the public understand the
Department’s information collection
requirements and provide the requested
data in the desired format. The
Department is soliciting comments on
the proposed information collection
request (ICR) that is described below.
The Department 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. Please note
that written comments received in
response to this notice will be
considered public records.
Title of Collection: State Education
Agency, Local Educational Agency, and
School Data Collection and Reporting
under ESEA, Title I, Part A.
OMB Control Number: 1810–0581.
Type of Review: An extension without
change of a currently approved ICR.
Respondents/Affected Public: State,
Local, and Tribal Governments.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 17,022.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 293,152.
Abstract: Title I, Part A (Title I) of the
Elementary and Secondary Education
Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the
Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015
(ESSA), contains several provisions that
require State educational agencies
(SEAs), local educational agencies
(LEAs), and schools to collect and
disseminate information. Thus, SEAs,
LEAs, and schools collect and
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket ID ED-2022-OPEPD-0082]
Request for Information Regarding Higher Education Act (HEA)
Pooled Evaluation
AGENCY: Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development,
Department of Education.
ACTION: Request for information.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Education (Department) is requesting
information in the form of written comments that may include
information, research, and suggestions regarding the Department's
implementation of the new authority provided to the Department in the
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, to reserve funding from certain
programs authorized by the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended
(HEA), for the purpose of carrying out rigorous and independent
evaluations and conducting data collection and analysis of such
programs. The Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development
(OPEPD) solicits these comments to identify potential evaluation, data
collection, and analysis activities that could be undertaken with these
funds that would increase knowledge about, and improve administration
of, programs authorized under the HEA, and build evidence of effective
practices to improve student outcomes in these programs. To use and
build evidence to support opportunities for students, the Department is
particularly interested in evaluation, data collection, and analysis
activities that can inform efforts to make higher education more
inclusive and affordable and ensure pathways through higher education
lead to successful careers. The Department is particularly
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interested in activities aligned to Administration priorities including
but not limited to strengthening community college capacity; holistic
student supports; promoting postsecondary retention and completion; and
strengthening alignment across institutions of higher education, K-12,
and the public workforce system.
DATES: We must receive your comments on or before February 17, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Comments must be submitted via the Federal eRulemaking
Portal at regulations.gov. However, if you require an accommodation or
cannot otherwise submit your comments via regulations.gov, please
contact the program contact person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT.
The Department strongly encourages you to submit any comments or
attachments in Microsoft Word format. If you must submit a comment in
Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), the Department strongly
encourages you to convert the PDF to ``print-to-PDF'' format, or to use
some other commonly used searchable text format. Please do not submit
the PDF in a scanned format. Using a print-to-PDF format allows the
Department to electronically search and copy certain portions of your
submissions to assist in the rulemaking process.
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to www.regulations.gov to submit
your 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
``FAQ.''
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 include in their
comments only information about themselves that they wish to make
publicly available. Commenters should not include in their comments any
information that identifies other individuals or that permits readers
to identify other individuals.
This is a request for information (RFI) only. This RFI is not a
request for proposals (RFP) or a promise to issue an RFP or a notice
inviting applications. This RFI does not commit the Department to
contract for any supply or service whatsoever. Further, we are not
seeking proposals and will not accept unsolicited proposals. The
Department will not pay for any information or administrative costs
that you may incur in responding to this RFI. The documents and
information submitted in response to this RFI become the property of
the U.S. Government and will not be returned.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John English, U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW Room 6W306, Washington, DC 20202.
Telephone: (202) 260-5787. Email: [email protected].
If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability and
wish to access telecommunications relay services, please dial 7-1-1.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Department administers dozens of programs authorized by the
HEA. These programs include (but are not limited to): the Student
Financial Assistance Programs, including the William D. Ford Federal
Direct Loan Program, the Federal Pell Grant Program, the Teacher
Education Assistance for College and Higher Education (TEACH) Grant
Program, the Federal Work-Study Program (FWS), and the Supplemental
Educational Grant Program (FSEOG), administered by Federal Student Aid
(FSA); the Student Service programs administered by the Office of
Postsecondary Education (OPE), including the Federal TRIO Programs,
Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR
UP), Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN), and Child
Care Access Means Parents in Schools (CCAMPIS); the Institutional
Service programs administered by OPE that are designed to increase
capacity of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs),
Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) and other Minority-Serving
institutions (MSIs) to provide high-quality education to more students;
the various special focus competitions supported under the Fund for the
Improvement of Postsecondary Education and administered by OPE; the
International and Foreign Language Education Domestic Programs; and the
Special Programs for Migrant Students and Teacher Quality Partnerships
Programs administered by the Office of Elementary and Secondary
Education.
As reflected in the Department's Strategic Plan and Learning Agenda
(available at https://evaluation.gov), high-quality evaluation, data
collection, and analysis are important priorities. They are key to the
Department's administration of programs and essential to Congress's and
the public's understanding of these programs. In addition, high-quality
program evaluation can help identify effective strategies that can be
disseminated and scaled more broadly. Very few HEA-authorized programs
allow the Department to use program funding for evaluation, technical
assistance, or data collection and analysis, resulting in missed
opportunities for the Department to be able to increase knowledge of
effective practices in higher education.
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 (Pub. L. 117-103),
includes a new HEA Pooled Evaluation authority that authorizes the
Secretary to reserve up to 0.5 percent from the appropriation for any
HEA-authorized program--excluding the Pell Grant Program and Student
Aid Administration--for the purpose of carrying out rigorous and
independent evaluations and to collect and analyze outcome data for any
program authorized by the HEA. Fiscal year (FY) 2022 funding that is
reserved for HEA Pooled Evaluation is available for obligation through
September 30, 2024. To date, the Department has reserved $6,904,996
under the HEA Pooled Evaluation authority. The Department must report
to the House and Senate Appropriations and Authorizing Committees on
the activities to be carried out under this authority, as well as the
funding used and the impact on grantees, 30 days prior to obligation of
funds. This authority was requested in the President's Budget in
previous years but was included in the Department's appropriations
legislation for the first time in FY 2022. The Administration has
requested the authority again in the FY 2023 President's Budget request
and hopes Congress continues to include this authority in future
appropriations. The Department will contemplate comments received from
this RFI when planning to use future funding it may receive from future
appropriations under this authority.
The Department is committed to using this authority in a way that
minimizes the impact on our grantees and students while also allocating
funding to the highest priority evaluation, data collection, and
analysis activities. To ensure that we harness the enormous potential
of this new authority, we are, through this RFI, requesting information
from the public on ideas for how best to use these funds. Our hope is
to identify and consider the widest possible range of ideas. Note that
we see this as a long-term effort; as such, ideas for evaluation, data
collection, and analysis that are not funded initially may continue to
be considered, pending the reservation of funds and whether
[[Page 77565]]
this authority is retained in future Department appropriations acts.
When submitting ideas for potential uses of HEA Pooled Evaluation
funding, please note that funding must be used in connection with
evaluation, data collection, and analysis of an HEA-authorized program,
including the student financial aid programs. When responding to this
RFI, please address one or more of the following questions related to
your proposed activity:
1. What is the goal of this evaluation, or data collection, and
analysis activity? How would this activity build evidence that supports
strategies that promote student success, make education more inclusive
and affordable, and ensure pathways through higher education lead to
successful careers?
2. What specific research question or questions is this evaluation,
data collection, and analysis activity designed to answer?
3. How would the proposed activity help evaluate, or otherwise
provide important information on, an HEA program or programs?
4. If the activity proposed is an evaluation, are you aware of
other evaluations on this topic? If so, please identify the relevant
evaluations.
5. Does the proposed activity involve new data collection and
analysis or the analysis of existing data?
6. Are there any additional benefits of conducting this activity
that have not been previously identified?
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www.regulations.gov. Please note that the Department will not directly
respond to comments.
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Program Authority: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022.
Roberto Rodriguez,
Assistant Secretary, Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy
Development.
[FR Doc. 2022-27474 Filed 12-16-22; 8:45 am]
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