[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 94 (Tuesday, May 18, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26909-26910]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-10430]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

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


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; 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 Sciences (IES), 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 without change of a previously approved 
collection.

DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before 
June 17, 2021.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for proposed 
information collection requests should be sent within 30 days of 
publication of this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find 
this information collection request by selecting ``Department of 
Education'' under ``Currently Under Review,'' then check ``Only Show 
ICR for Public Comment'' checkbox. Comments may also be sent to 
[email protected].

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

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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: A reinstatement without change of a previously 
approved 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 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: May 13, 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. 2021-10430 Filed 5-17-21; 8:45 am]
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