Notice2024-27846
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; School Pulse Panel 2025-26 and 2026-27 (SPP 2025-26, SPP 2026-27) Preliminary Field Activities
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Published
November 27, 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 229 (Wednesday, November 27, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 93567-93568]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-27846]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket No.: ED-2024-SCC-0101]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; School Pulse Panel 2025-26 and 2026-27 (SPP 2025-26, SPP 2026-
27) Preliminary Field Activities
AGENCY: National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), 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).
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DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before
December 27, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for proposed
information collection requests should be submitted within 30 days of
publication of this notice. Click on this link <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a> to access the site. Find this information collection request
(ICR) by selecting ``Department of Education'' under ``Currently Under
Review,'' then check the ``Only Show ICR for Public Comment'' checkbox.
<a href="http://Reginfo.gov">Reginfo.gov</a> provides two links to view documents related to this
information collection request. Information collection forms and
instructions may be found by clicking on the ``View Information
Collection (IC) List'' link. Supporting statements and other supporting
documentation may be found by clicking on the ``View Supporting
Statement and Other Documents'' link.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For specific questions related to
collection activities, please contact Carrie Clarady, 202-245-6347.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 and 2026-27 (SPP
2025-26, SPP 2026-27) 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: 2,503.
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: November 22, 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. 2024-27846 Filed 11-26-24; 8:45 am]
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