[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 164 (Friday, August 25, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58257-58258]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-18373]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION


National Board for Education Sciences

AGENCY: National Board for Education Sciences, Department of Education, 
Institute of Education Sciences (IES).

ACTION: Notice of an open meeting.

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SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the agenda, time, and instructions to 
access or participate in the National Board for Education Sciences 
(hereafter referred to as NBES or Board) virtual meeting scheduled for 
September 11, 2023. This notice provides information about the meeting 
to members of the public who may be interested in attending the meeting 
and/or providing written comment. Notice of this meeting is required 
under 5 U.S.C. chapter 10 (Federal Advisory Committees).

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be conducted virtually.

DATES: The NBES virtual meeting will be held on September 11, 2023, 
from 12:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m. (EST).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Andrea Miralia, Designated Federal 
Officer (DFO) for NBES, (PCP 4126-1), U.S. Department of Education, 
IES: 550 12th St. SW, Washington, DC 20024, Telephone: (202) 245-6046, 
email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Statutory Authority and Function: The Board is authorized by Sec.  
116 of the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 (20 U.S.C. 9516). The 
Board is established as part of the U.S. Department of Education, IES, 
and shall, consistent with 20 U.S.C. 9514, 9515(b) and (c), 9516, and 
9567, function as a board of directors for IES. IES' mission is to 
provide national leadership in expanding fundamental knowledge and 
understanding of education from early childhood through postsecondary 
study, in order to provide parents, educators, students, researchers, 
policymakers, and the general public with reliable information about 
the condition and progress of education in the United States, the 
educational practices that support learning and improve academic 
achievement and access to educational opportunities for all students, 
and the effectiveness of Federal and other education programs.
    The Board's responsibilities are: (1) advise and consult with the 
Director of IES (Director) on the policies of IES; (2) consider and 
approve priorities proposed by the Director under 20 U.S.C. 9515 to 
guide the work of IES; (3) transmit approved priorities to the 
appropriate congressional committee (20 U.S.C. 9515(b)); (4) ensure 
that the priorities of IES and the National Education Centers are 
consistent with the mission of IES (20 U.S.C. 9515(c)); (5) review and 
approve procedures for technical and scientific peer review of the 
activities of IES; (6) advise the Director on the establishment of 
activities to be supported by IES, including the general areas of 
research to be carried out by the National Center for Education 
Research and the National Center for Special Education Research; (7) 
present to the Director such recommendations as it may find appropriate 
for (a) the strengthening of education research, and (b) the funding of 
IES; (8) advise the Director on the funding of applications for grants, 
contracts, and cooperative agreements for research, after the 
completion of peer review; (9) review and regularly evaluate the work 
of IES, to ensure that scientifically valid research, development, 
evaluation, and statistical analysis are consistent with the standards 
for such activities under this title; (10) advise the Director on 
ensuring that activities conducted or supported by IES are objective, 
secular, neutral, and non-ideological, and are free of partisan 
political influence and racial, cultural, gender, or regional bias; 
(11) solicit advice and information from those in the educational 
field, particularly practitioners and researchers, to recommend to the 
Director topics that require long-term, sustained, systematic, 
programmatic, and integrated research efforts, including knowledge 
utilization and wide dissemination of research,

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consistent with the priorities and mission of IES; (12) advise the 
Director on opportunities for the participation in, and the advancement 
of, women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in education 
research, statistics, and evaluation activities of IES; (13) recommend 
to the Director ways to enhance strategic partnerships and 
collaborative efforts among other Federal and State research agencies; 
(14) recommend to the Director individuals to serve as Commissioners of 
the National Education Centers; and (15) make recommendations to the 
President with respect to the appointment of the Director (20 U.S.C. 
9514).
    Meeting Agenda: The purpose of this meeting is to convene the 
members of NBES to conduct the following business: (1) call to order 
and welcome by the Director and the DFO for the Board; (2) member roll 
call; (3) housekeeping on meeting ground rules; (4) ceremonial 
swearing-in of NBES members by the Director; (5) review of member roles 
and duties; (6) Chair nomination and election; (7) remarks from the 
elected Chairperson; (8) introduction of the following IES Offices and 
Centers: Office of the Director, including Office of Science, 
Administration and Policy, and Data Sciences and Communications, 
National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance 
(NCEE), National Center for Education Research (NCER), National Center 
for Special Education Research (NCSER), and National Center for 
Education Statistics (NCES); (9) presentation by the Director on the 
priorities of IES, followed by Board discussion, (10) a presentation by 
the Director of the Institute of Education Sciences on the overview and 
status of National Center for Advanced Development in Education (NCADE) 
and ESRA (Education Sciences Reform Act); and (11) closing remarks.
    Instructions for Accessing the Meeting: Members of the public 
interested in attending this virtual meeting may email the DFO listed 
in this notice no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on September 
4, 2023. The DFO will provide a link and instructions on how to access 
the meeting via Microsoft Teams.
    Public Comment: Members of the public interested in submitting 
written comments may do so by emailing the DFO listed in this notice no 
later than 11:59 p.m. ET on September 4, 2023. Please note that written 
comments should pertain to the work of NBES.
    Reasonable Accommodations: The virtual meeting is accessible to 
individuals with disabilities. If you will need an auxiliary aid or 
service for the meeting (e.g., interpreting service, assistive 
listening device, or materials in an alternate format), notify the DFO 
listed in this notice no later than Sunday, September 3, 2023. 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.
    Access to Records of the Meeting: The Department will post the 
official minutes of this meeting on the IES website, https://ies.ed.gov/director/board/index.asp, no later than 30 days after the 
meeting. Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 1009(b), the public may also inspect NBES 
records at the U.S. Department of Education, IES, 550 12th St. SW, 
Washington, DC 2002, Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET. Please 
email [email protected] to schedule an appointment.
    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 
site. You also may 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 
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by the Department.
    Authority: Sec.  116 of the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 
(20 U.S.C. 9516).

Mark Schneider,
Director, Institute of Education Sciences.
[FR Doc. 2023-18373 Filed 8-24-23; 8:45 am]
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