President's Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, 51877 [2024-13484]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 119 / Thursday, June 20, 2024 / Notices media platforms, and the project website https://www.mvn.usace. army.mil/About/Projects/Morganza-tothe-Gulf/. James A. Bodron, Programs Director, Mississippi Valley Division. [FR Doc. 2024–13480 Filed 6–18–24; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3720–58–P DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Office of Secretary, Department of Education. ACTION: Notice. Cancelled open public meeting. AGENCY: This notice is to advise members of the public of the cancellation of the open meeting of the President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities scheduled to be held on June 20, 2024 at 10:30 p.m. (EDT). The open meeting was announced in the Federal Register on Monday, May 20, 2023, in FR Doc. 2024–10920 page 43840–43841. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sedika Franklin, Associate Director/ Designated Federal Official, U.S. Department of Education, White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20204; telephone: (202) 453–5634 or (202) 453–5630, or email sedika.franklin@ed.gov. SUMMARY: Alexis Barrett, Chief of Staff, Office of the Secretary. [FR Doc. 2024–13484 Filed 6–18–24; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4000–01–P DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Tests Determined To Be Suitable for Use in the National Reporting System for Adult Education Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, Department of Education. ACTION: Notice. khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with NOTICES AGENCY: The Secretary announces tests, test forms, and delivery formats that the Secretary determines to be suitable for use in the National Reporting System for Adult Education (NRS). This notice relates to the approved information collections under SUMMARY: VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:08 Jun 18, 2024 Jkt 262001 OMB control numbers 1830–0027 and 1830–0567. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John LeMaster, Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20202. Telephone: 202–987–0903. Email: John.LeMaster@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: On January 14, 2008, we published in the Federal Register final regulations for 34 CFR part 462, Measuring Educational Gain in the National Reporting System for Adult Education (73 FR 2305, January 14, 2008, as amended at 81 FR 55552, August 19, 2016) (NRS regulations). The NRS regulations established the process the Secretary uses to determine the suitability of tests for use in the NRS by States and local eligible providers. We annually publish in the Federal Register, and post on the internet at www.nrsweb.org, a list of the names of tests and the educational functioning levels the tests are suitable to measure in the NRS as required by § 462.12(c)(2). On August 7, 2020, the Secretary published in the Federal Register (85 FR 47952) an annual notice consolidating information from previous notices that announced tests determined to be suitable for use in the NRS, in accordance with § 462.13 (August 2020 annual notice). Also, in the August 2020 annual notice, the Secretary announced that English as a Second Language (ESL) tests and test forms approved for an extended period through February 2, 2021, are approved for an additional extended period through February 2, 2023, and that an Adult Basic Education (ABE) test and test forms previously approved for a three-year period through March 7, 2021, are approved for an extended period through March 7, 2023. On December 6, 2021, the Secretary published in the Federal Register (86 FR 69021), an annual notice with the same list of approved tests and test forms as was published in the August 2020 annual notice. On September 23, 2022, the Secretary published in the Federal Register (87 FR 58078) an annual notice announcing that ESL tests and test forms previously approved for an extended period through February 2, 2023, were approved for an additional extended period through February 2, 2024, and that an ABE test and test forms previously approved for an extended period through March 7, 2023, were PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 51877 approved for an additional extended period through March 7, 2024. On July 13, 2023, the Secretary published in the Federal Register (88 FR 44784) an annual notice announcing new tests that were determined to be suitable for use in the NRS, in accordance with § 462.13 (July 2023 annual notice). Three tests measured the NRS educational functioning levels for ABE at the ABE levels specified in the July 2023 annual notice, and four tests measured the new NRS educational functioning levels for ESL at the ESL levels specified in the July 2023 annual notice. With the Secretary’s approval of the new ESL tests in the July 2023 annual notice, the new educational functioning levels for ESL described in Appendix A of Measures and Methods for the National Reporting System for Adult Education (OMB Control Number: 1830–0027) were implemented. In the July 2023 annual notice, the Secretary announced that ESL tests with NRS approvals expiring on February 2, 2024, may be used in the NRS during a sunset period ending on June 30, 2024. On August 24, 2023, the Secretary published a notice in the Federal Register (88 FR 57949) correcting the name of one test listed in the July 2023 annual notice. All other information in the July 2023 annual notice remained the same. On March 18, 2024, the Secretary published in the Federal Register (89 FR 19307) a notice announcing that the sunset period for ESL tests scheduled to sunset on June 30, 2024, is extended through June 30, 2025. This extension of the sunset period will allow States sufficient time for the operational activities required for the transition to the new ESL assessments identified in the July 2023 annual notice. The ESL educational functioning level descriptors to which the ESL tests with expiring NRS approvals are aligned and that were scheduled to be retired on June 30, 2024, are extended through June 30, 2025. Until that time, both the current ESL educational functioning level descriptors and the new ESL educational functioning level descriptors will be in effect. States must use an ESL assessment that is aligned to the appropriate ESL educational functioning level descriptors. In this notice, the Secretary announces two new tests and test forms that have been determined to be suitable for use in the NRS, in accordance with § 462.13. The tests measure the NRS educational functioning levels at all ABE and ESL levels, as described in Appendix A of Measures and Methods for the National Reporting System for Adult Education (OMB Control Number E:\FR\FM\20JNN1.SGM 20JNN1

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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 119 (Thursday, June 20, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 51877]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-13484]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION


President's Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and 
Universities

AGENCY: President's Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges 
and Universities, Office of Secretary, Department of Education.

ACTION: Notice. Cancelled open public meeting.

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SUMMARY: This notice is to advise members of the public of the 
cancellation of the open meeting of the President's Board of Advisors 
on Historically Black Colleges and Universities scheduled to be held on 
June 20, 2024 at 10:30 p.m. (EDT). The open meeting was announced in 
the Federal Register on Monday, May 20, 2023, in FR Doc. 2024-10920 
page 43840-43841.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sedika Franklin, Associate Director/
Designated Federal Official, U.S. Department of Education, White House 
Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, 400 
Maryland Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20204; telephone: (202) 453-5634 or 
(202) 453-5630, or email [email protected].

Alexis Barrett,
Chief of Staff, Office of the Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2024-13484 Filed 6-18-24; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4000-01-P


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