[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 220 (Tuesday, November 15, 2016)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[Docket No.: ED-2016-ICCD-0126]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; 
Principal Follow-Up Survey (PFS 2016-17) to the National Teacher and 
Principal Survey (NTPS 2015-16)

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 of 1995, ED is 
proposing a new information collection.

DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before 
January 17, 2017.

ADDRESSES: To access and review all the documents related to the 
information collection listed in this notice, please use http://www.regulations.gov by searching the Docket ID number ED-2016-ICCD-
0126. Comments submitted in response to this notice should be submitted 
electronically through the Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://www.regulations.gov by selecting the Docket ID number or via postal 
mail, commercial delivery, or hand delivery. Please note that comments 
submitted by fax or email and those 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 
Director of the Information Collection Clearance Division, U.S. 
Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., LBJ, Room 2E-347, 
Washington, DC 20202-4537.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For specific questions related to 
collection activities, please contact NCES Information Collections at 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department of Education (ED), 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. ED is soliciting comments on the proposed 
information collection request (ICR) that is described below. The 
Department of Education 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: Principal Follow-Up Survey (PFS 2016-17) to 
the National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS 2015-16).
    OMB Control Number: 1850-NEW.
    Type of Review: A new information collection.
    Respondents/Affected Public: Individuals or Households.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 7,240.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 603.
    Abstract: This request is to conduct data collection for the 2016-
17 Principal Follow-up Survey (PFS), a one-year follow up of principals 
who responded to the 2015-16 National Teacher and Principal Survey 
(NTPS). PFS is conducted by the National Center for Education 
Statistics (NCES), of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), within 
the U.S. Department of Education (ED). The PFS has been conducted two 
times previously: beginning in 2008-09 as a follow up to the Schools 
and Staffing Survey (SASS) in 2007-08 (OMB #1850-0598 v.5) and, 
subsequently, as a follow-up to SASS in 2012-2013 (OMB #1850-0598 v.9). 
During the 2015-16 school year, NCES conducted the first NTPS (OMB 
#1850-0598 v.11), a redesign of SASS to improve the flexibility, 
efficiency, and timeliness of NCES data on the nation's K-12 schools, 
principals, and teachers. The 2016-17 PFS will be the first to launch 
from the redesigned NTPS. The PFS survey design and content remain 
highly consistent with earlier administrations. The 2016-17 PFS, like 
earlier PFS collections, will measure the one-year attrition rates of 
principals who leave the profession and will permit comparisons of 
stayers, movers, and leavers. ``Stayers'' are principals who remain in 
the same school between the NTPS year of data collection and the 
follow-up year; ``movers'' are principals who stay in the profession 
but change schools between the NTPS year and the follow-up year; and 
``leavers'' are NTPS respondents who leave the principal profession 
between the NTPS year and the follow-up year. The data collected in the 
2016-17 PFS will be combined with data collected in the 2015-16 NTPS on 
principal characteristics, qualifications, and perceptions of the 
school environment. Together, NTPS and PFS provide national data on 
turnover in the principal workforce, including rates of entry and 
attrition from principalship, sources and characteristics of newly 
hired principals, and characteristics and destinations of leavers. The 
cross-sectional repeated design of PFS allows for analyses of trends 
related to these topics.

    Dated: November 9, 2016.
Kate Mullan,
Acting Director, Information Collection Clearance Division, Office of 
the Chief Privacy Officer, Office of Management.
[FR Doc. 2016-27393 Filed 11-14-16; 8:45 am]
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