[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 46 (Thursday, March 11, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13888-13889]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-05061]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[Docket No.: ED-2021-SCC-0035]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; 
Follow-Up Surveys to the 2020-21 NTPS: 2021-22 Teacher Follow-Up Survey 
(TFS) and 2021-22 Principal Follow-Up

AGENCY: Institute of Educational Science (IES), 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 reinstatement with change of a previously approved 
information collection.

DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before 
May 10, 2021.

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-2021-SCC-0035. 
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 PRA 
Coordinator of the Strategic Collections and Clearance Governance and 
Strategy Division, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Ave. SW, 
LBJ, Room 6W208B, Washington, DC 20202-8240.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For specific questions related to 
collection activities, please contact Carrie Clarady, 202-245-6347.

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: FOLLOW-UP SURVEYS TO THE 2020-21 NTPS: 2021-22 
Teacher Follow-Up Survey (TFS) and 2021-22 Principal Follow-Up.
    OMB Control Number: 1850-0617.
    Type of Review: Reinstatement with change of a previously approved 
information collection.
    Respondents/Affected Public: Individuals and Households.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 25,688.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 5,136.
    Abstract: This request is to conduct data collection for the two 
follow-up surveys to the 2020-21 National Teacher and Principal Survey 
(NTPS)--the 2021-22 Teacher Follow-up Survey (TFS) and the 2021-22 
Principal Follow-up Survey (PFS). The 2021-22 TFS is a one-year follow 
up of a subsample of teachers who responded to the 2020-21 NTPS, and 
the 2021-22 PFS is a one-year follow up of principals who responded to 
the 2020-21 NTPS. TFS and PFS are 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 2021-22 TFS 
and 2021-22 PFS, like earlier TFS and PFS collections, will measure the 
one-year attrition rates of

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teachers and principals, respectively, who leave the profession and 
will permit comparisons of stayers, movers, and leavers to fulfill the 
legislative mandate for NCES to report on the ``condition of education 
in the United States.'' ``Stayers'' are teachers or principals who 
remain in the same school between the NTPS year of data collection and 
the follow-up year. ``Movers'' are teachers or principals who stay in 
the profession but change schools between the NTPS year and the follow-
up year. ``Leavers'' are NTPS respondents who leave the teaching or 
principal profession between the NTPS year and the follow-up year. The 
2021-22 TFS analysis file will include TFS data in addition to data 
collected in the 2020-21 NTPS on teacher characteristics, 
qualifications, perceptions of the school environment and the teaching 
profession, and a host of other topics. Prior TFS data have played an 
important role in improving the understanding of teacher supply and 
demand and the conditions that affect the balance between the two. NTPS 
and TFS provide national data on turnover in the teacher workforce, 
including rates of entry and attrition from teaching, sources and 
characteristics of newly hired teachers, and characteristics and 
destinations of Leavers. These data help shift the debate from the 
issue of teacher quantity to teacher quality; that is, from a focus on 
teacher shortages measured in terms of the numbers of teaching 
positions left vacant to the qualifications of teachers who are hired 
and retained to fill teaching positions. The cross-sectional repeated 
design of TFS allows the analysis of trends related to these topics. 
The 2021-22 PFS analysis file will include PFS data in addition to data 
on principal characteristics, qualifications, and perceptions of the 
school environment from data collected in the 2020-21 NTPS. Together, 
NTPS and PFS will provide national data on turnover in the principal 
workforce, including rates of entry and attrition from principalship, 
sources and characteristics of newly hired principals, characteristics 
and destinations of leavers, and thanks to the cross-sectional repeated 
design of PFS, analyses of trends related to these topics. This 
clearance request is to conduct both 2021-22 NTPS follow-up surveys 
(TFS and PFS), including all recruitment and data collection 
activities. This request seeks authorization for 2021-22 TFS and 2021-
22 PFS under the TFS single OMB number (OMB# 1850-0617).

    Dated: March 8, 2021.
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. 2021-05061 Filed 3-10-21; 8:45 am]
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