[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 127 (Wednesday, July 1, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 39544]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-13758]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
National Assessment Governing Board
National Assessment Governing Board; Meetings
AGENCY: National Assessment Governing Board, Department of Education.
ACTION: Supplemental virtual meeting notice.
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SUMMARY: The National Assessment Governing Board (Governing Board)
published a document in the Federal Register of June 16, 2020,
announcing the schedule and proposed agenda of a forthcoming virtual
meeting of the Governing Board on June 29, 2020. The meeting agenda has
been updated to reflect a change to the closed session scheduled for
Monday, June 29, 2020, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time. (ET).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Munira Mwalimu, Executive Officer/
Designated Federal Official for the Governing Board, 800 North Capitol
Street NW, Suite 825, Washington, DC 20002, telephone: (202) 357-6938,
fax: (202) 357-6945, email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the Federal Register published on June
16, 2020, in FR Doc. 2020-12952 (85 FR 36384-36385), the Governing
Board advised members of the public of a virtual meeting scheduled to
take place on June 29, 2020. Updates to the agenda are required based
on the fact that the agenda items to be covered during the closed
session is now shortened, which impacts the time available for the open
session.
The first session, the closed session, will discuss independent
cost estimates related to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2021 operations and
subsequent potential impacts on the NAEP budget and assessment schedule
as previously announced. The closed discussion will now take place
between 2:00 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. (ET). The discussions may impact current
and future NAEP contracts and budgets and must be kept confidential.
Public disclosure of this confidential information would significantly
impede implementation of the NAEP assessment program if conducted in
open session. Such matters are protected by exemption 9(B) of section
552b(c) of Title 5 of the United States Code. The closed session will
be followed by a 15-minute break. The agenda is hereby revised to add
an additional item for the open session which will now take place from
3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET. The Board will engage in conversation with
key stakeholders on NAEP 2021--representatives from the Council of the
Great City Schools, the Council of Chief State School Officers, and the
Southern Regional Education Board. Following this discussion, the
originally published discussion on NAEP 2021 options will continue as
scheduled from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET. The meeting will adjourn at
5:00 p.m. ET.
Access to Records of the Meeting: Pursuant to FACA requirements,
the public may also inspect the meeting materials at www.nagb.gov
beginning on Thursday, June 25, 2020 by 10:00 a.m. ET. The official
verbatim transcripts of the public meeting sessions will be available
for public inspection no later than 30 calendar days following the
meeting.
Reasonable Accommodations: The meeting site is accessible to
individuals with disabilities. If you will need an auxiliary aid or
service to participate in the meeting (e.g., interpreting service,
assistive listening device, or materials in an alternate format),
notify the contact person listed in this notice at least two weeks
before the scheduled meeting date. Although we will attempt to meet a
request received after that date, we may not be able to make available
the requested auxiliary aid or service because of insufficient time to
arrange it.
Electronic Access to this Document: The official version of this
document is the document published in the Federal Register. Free
internet access to the official edition of the Federal Register and the
Code of Federal Regulations is available via the Federal Digital System
at: www.gpo.gov/fdsys. At this site you can view this document, as well
as all other documents of this Department published in the Federal
Register, in text or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). To use PDF,
you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available free at the
Adobe website.
You may also access documents of the Department published in the
Federal Register by using the article search feature at:
www.federalregister.gov. Specifically, through the advanced search
feature at this site, you can limit your search to documents published
by the Department.
Authority: Pub. L. 107-279, Title III--National Assessment of
Educational Progress section 301.
Lesley A. Muldoon,
Executive Director,National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB),U.S.
Department of Education.
[FR Doc. 2020-13758 Filed 6-30-20; 8:45 am]
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