[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 234 (Friday, December 4, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 78314]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-26705]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[Docket No.: ED-2020-SCC-0038]


High School and Beyond 2021 (HS&B:21) Base-Year Full-Scale Study 
Data Collection; Correction

AGENCY: Institute for Education Sciences, National Center for Education 
Statistics (IES/NCES), Department of Education (ED).

ACTION: Correction notice.

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SUMMARY: The PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and Clearance, 
Office of the Chief Data Officer, Office of Planning, Evaluation and 
Policy Development, hereby issues a correction notice as required by 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On November 30, 2020, the U.S. Department of 
Education published a 30-day comment period notice in the Federal 
Register with FR DOC# 2020-26269 (Page 76545, Column 2, Column 3; Page 
76546, Column 1) seeking public comment for an information collection 
entitled, ``High School and Beyond 2021 (HS&B:21) Base-Year Full-Scale 
Study Data Collection''. The tile is incorrect. The title should be 
High School and Beyond 2022 (HS&B:22) Base-Year Full-Scale Data 
Collection Year Delay Change Request. The abstract is incorrect. The 
correct abstract should read as follows.
    The High School and Beyond 2022 study (HS&B:22) will be the sixth 
in a series of longitudinal studies at the high school level conducted 
by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), within the 
Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of 
Education. HS&B:22 will follow a nationally representative sample of 
ninth grade students from the start of high school in the fall of 2022 
to the spring of 2026 when most will be in twelfth grade. A field test 
will be conducted one year prior to the full-scale study. The study 
sample will be freshened in 2026 to create a nationally representative 
sample of twelfth-grade students. A high school transcript collection 
and additional follow-up data collections beyond high school are also 
planned. In preparation for the HS&B:20 Base-Year Full-Scale study 
(BYFS), originally scheduled to take place in the fall of 2020, the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved (OMB #1850-0944 v.1-5) 
requests to conduct the HS&B:20 Base-Year Field Test (BYFT) and the 
BYFS sampling and state, school district, school, and parent 
recruitment activities, both of which began in the fall of 2019. These 
activities include collecting student rosters and selecting the BYFS 
sample. BYFT activities ended in December 2019. A 60-day review of the 
full Base-Year Full-Scale Data Collection package was completed between 
February and April 2020. In the middle of that 60-day review, due to 
the COVID-19 pandemic, NCES decided to postpone this collection for one 
year, to Fall 2021, and updated the study documentation appropriately 
for the 30-day review. OMB provided approval to the new package, with 
the 2021 schedule, in October 2020 (OMB #1850-0944 v.7). Due to 
continued burden on schools due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, NCES 
has decided to further delay the BYFS study data collection to Fall 
2022. This submission addresses that delay and amends the previously 
approved package to update it with these new plans.
    This submission includes all pieces of the High School and Beyond 
2022 (HS&B:22) Base-Year Full-Scale Study Data Collection package. The 
primary purpose of this change request is to add new communication 
materials to immediately send to states, schools, and districts that 
have already agreed to participate in the HS&B Main Study, notifying 
those interested parties of the additional one-year delay. This request 
does not affect the approved total cost to the federal government for 
conducting this study nor the estimated respondent burden.

    Dated: December 1, 2020.
Stephanie Valentine,
PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and Clearance, Office of the 
Chief Data Officer, Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy 
Development.
[FR Doc. 2020-26705 Filed 12-3-20; 8:45 am]
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