[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 182 (Thursday, September 19, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49277-49278]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-20292]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[Docket No.: ED-2019-ICCD-0119]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; 
Mandatory Civil Rights Data Collection

AGENCY: Office for Civil Rights (OCR), Department of Education (ED).

ACTION: Notice

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ED is 
proposing a revision of an existing information collection.

DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before 
November 18, 2019.

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-2019-ICCD-
0119. 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. If the regulations.gov 
site is not available to the public for any reason, ED will temporarily 
accept comments at [email protected]. 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 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, 550 12th Street SW, PCP, Room 9089, 
Washington, DC 20202-0023.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For specific questions related to the 
collection activities, please contact Rosa Olmeda, (202) 453-5968 or 
via email 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: Mandatory Civil Rights Data Collection.
    OMB Control Number: 1870-0504.
    Type of Review: A revision of an existing information collection.
    Respondents/Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal Governments.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 17,621.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 1,466,407.
    Abstract: The collection, use, and reporting of education data is 
an integral component of the mission of the U.S. Department of 
Education (ED). EDFacts,

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an ED initiative to put performance data at the center of ED's policy, 
management, and budget decision-making processes for all K-12 education 
programs, has transformed the way in which ED collects and uses data. 
For school years 2009-10 and 2011-12, the Civil Rights Data Collection 
(CRDC) was approved by OMB as part of the EDFacts information 
collection (1875-0240). For school years 2013-14, 2015-16, and 2017-18, 
the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) cleared the CRDC as a separate 
collection from EDFacts. The currently proposed revised CRDC 
information collection for school year 2019-20 is modeled after the 
most recent OMB-approved EDFacts information collection (1850-0925). 
For the 2019-20 CRDC, OCR is proposing some changes, and those changes 
will have the net effect of reducing burden on school districts. As 
with previous CRDC collections, the purpose of the 2019-20 CRDC is to 
obtain vital data related to the civil rights laws' requirement that 
public local educational agencies (LEAs) and elementary and secondary 
schools provide equal educational opportunity. ED has analyzed the uses 
of many data elements collected in the 2013-14 and 2015-16 CRDCs and 
sought advice from experts across ED to refine, improve, and where 
appropriate, add or remove data elements from the collection. ED also 
made the CRDC data definitions and metrics consistent with other 
mandatory collections across ED wherever possible. ED seeks OMB 
approval under the Paperwork Reduction Act to collect from LEAs, the 
elementary and secondary education data described in the sections of 
Attachment A. In addition, ED requests that LEAs and other stakeholders 
respond to the directed questions found in Attachment A-5.

    Dated: September 16, 2019.
Stephanie Valentine,
PRA Clearance Coordinator, Information Collection Clearance Program, 
Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2019-20292 Filed 9-18-19; 8:45 am]
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