Notice2024-18490
Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; School Pulse Panel 2025-26 (SPP 2025-26) Preliminary Field Activities
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Published
August 19, 2024
Issuing agencies
Education Department
Abstract
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the Department is proposing a revision of a currently approved information collection request (ICR).
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 160 (Monday, August 19, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67074-67075]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-18490]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket No.: ED-2024-SCC-0101]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; School
Pulse Panel 2025-26 (SPP 2025-26) Preliminary Field Activities
AGENCY: Institute of Education Sciences (IES), Department of Education
(ED).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995,
the Department is proposing a revision of a currently approved
information collection request (ICR).
DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before
October 18, 2024.
ADDRESSES: To access and review all the documents related to the
information collection listed in this notice, please use <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a> by searching the Docket ID number ED-2024-SCC-0101.
Comments submitted in response to this notice should be submitted
electronically through the Federal eRulemaking Portal at <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a> by selecting the Docket ID number or via postal
mail, commercial delivery, or hand delivery. If the <a href="http://regulations.gov">regulations.gov</a>
site is not available to the public for any reason, the Department will
temporarily accept comments at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b1f8f2f5ded2dad4c5fcd6c3f1d4d59fd6dec7"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="1d545e59727e767869507a6f5d7879337a726b">[email protected]</span></a>. 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 addressed to the Manager of the Strategic
Collections and Clearance
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Governance and Strategy Division, U.S. Department of Education, 400
Maryland Ave SW, LBJ, Room 4C210, Washington, DC 20202-1200.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For specific questions related to
collection activities, please contact Carrie Clarady, 202-245-6347.
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: School Pulse Panel 2025-26 (SPP 2025-26)
Preliminary Field Activities.
OMB Control Number: 1850-0975.
Type of Review: A revision of a currently approved ICR.
Respondents/Affected Public: State, Local, and Tribal Governments.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 6,339.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 2,525.
Abstract: The School Pulse Panel (SPP) is a data collection that
was originally designed to collect voluntary responses from a
nationally representative sample of public schools to better understand
how schools, students, and educators were responding to the ongoing
stressors of the coronavirus pandemic. The School Pulse Panel is
conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), part
of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), within the United States
Department of Education. Initially, the purpose of the study was to
collect extensive data on issues brought to light by the COVID-19
pandemic, as well as other important education-related issues that
could inform data-driven policy decisions, in U.S. public schools. Due
to the immediate need to collect pandemic-era information from schools
as described in Executive Order 14000, an emergency clearance was
issued to develop and field the first several monthly collections of
the SPP in 2021 and a full review of the SPP data collection was
performed in 2022 (OMB# 1850-0969). SPPs innovative design and timely
dissemination of findings have been used and cited frequently among
Department of Education senior leadership, the White House Domestic
Policy Council, the USDAs Food and Nutrition Service, the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, Congressional deliberations, and the
media. The growing interest from stakeholders resulted in a request for
funding to create an established NCES quick-turnaround data collection
vehicle to become a mainstay for NCES. Funding for a mainstay
collection was approved in late 2022, and NCES conducted a new
collection during the 2023-24 school year (OMB# 1850-0975).
The School Pulse Panel study is one of the few reliable, nationally
representative, quick-turnaround studies that produces data on U.S.
public schools. The sample design for the 2025-26 collection will
roughly be the same as the 2024-25 collection with 4,000 public schools
randomly selected to an initial sample and 4,000 in a reserve sample.
It is expected these schools will come from roughly 3,000 districts.
The goal is national representation from about 1,200 responding schools
each month in order to report out national estimates. School staff will
be asked to provide requested data monthly during the 2025-26 school
year. This approach provides the ability to collect detailed
information on various topics while also assessing changes over time
for items that are repeated from year to year. Given the demand for
data collection, the content of the survey is expected to change
monthly. For the 2025-26 school year, the survey may ask school staff
about a wide range of topics, including but not limited to staffing;
learning recovery; absenteeism; usage of federal funds; and overall
principal experiences.
This package includes preliminary activities, including contacting
and obtaining research approvals from public school districts with an
established research approval process (special contact districts) where
applicable; notifying sampled schools and districts of their selection
for the survey; and inviting them to complete a short Screener Survey
to establish points of contact. In spring of 2025, a clearance for main
study data collection activities that will include instruments for the
first quarter of collections will be submitted for 60-day and 30-day
public comment. Subsequent quarterly content submissions will be
submitted for 30-day public comment.
This request is to conduct the SPP 2025-26 preliminary activities.
Substantial edits and additional materials may be added to this package
after the 60-day public comment period is complete, in time for the
subsequent 30-day public comment period that will begin Fall 2024.
Materials for SPP are cleared under two OMB Number sequences. Materials
for SPP 2022 and SPP 2024-25 were cleared under OMB# 1850-0969, while
SPP 2023-24 and now SPP 2025-26 are cleared under OMB# 1850-0975.
Dated: August 13, 2024.
Stephanie Valentine,
PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and Clearance, Governance and
Strategy Division, Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of Planning,
Evaluation and Policy Development.
[FR Doc. 2024-18490 Filed 8-16-24; 8:45 am]
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