[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 10 (Tuesday, January 16, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2600-2601]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-00699]


-----------------------------------------------------------------------

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION


Meeting of the National Board for Education Sciences

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

ACTION: Notice of an open meeting.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

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 
January 29, 2024. This notice provides information about the meeting to 
members of the public who may be interested in virtually attending the 
meeting and/or how to provide written comment(s).

ADDRESSES: The virtual meeting will be conducted virtually via 
Microsoft Teams.

DATES: The NBES meeting will be held on Monday, January 29, 2024, from 
10 a.m.-4 p.m. (EST).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ellie Pelaez, DFO for NBES, U.S. 
Department of Education, IES: 550 12th Street SW, Office 4126-1, 
Washington, DC 20202, telephone: (202) 987-0359, email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice of this meeting is required by 
section 1009(a)(2) of 5 U.S.C. chapter 10 (Federal Advisory 
Committees).
    Statutory Authority and Function: The Board is authorized by 
section 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)-(c), 
and 9516 function as a board of directors for IES. The mission of IES 
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; 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)

[[Page 2601]]

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 (NCER) and the National Center 
for Special Education Research (NCSER) (20 U.S.C. 9567); (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, 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.
    Meeting Agenda: The agenda for the meeting is as follows: (1) Call 
to order and welcome remarks by the Chairwoman of the Board; (2) Member 
roll call; (3) Board member approval of meeting transcript from the 
December 4-5, 2023 meeting; (4) Board member approval of meeting 
agenda; (5) discussion of and voting on reports from NBES 
subcommittees; (6) Discussion of NBES policy priorities; (7) Meeting 
with a representative from Friends of IES to discuss how they can 
support NBES efforts; (8) Plan for NBES meetings in upcoming calendar 
year; (9) Closing remarks and adjournment.
    Instructions for Accessing the Meeting: Members of the public 
interested in virtually attending this meeting may email the DFO listed 
in this notice no later than 11:59 p.m. eastern time (ET) on Wednesday, 
January 24, 2024. 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 related to the work of NBES may do so by emailing the 
DFO listed in this notice no later than 11:59 p.m. ET on Wednesday, 
January 24, 2024. Written comments should pertain to the mission and 
function 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 January 24th, 2024.
    Access to Records of the Meeting: The official transcript of this 
meeting will be available for public review on the IES website, https://ies.ed.gov/director/board/index.asp, no later than 90 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 Street SW, 
Washington, DC 20202, Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 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 
feature at this site, you can limit your search to documents published 
by the Department.
    Authority: Section 116 of the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 
(20 U.S.C. 9516).

Mark Schneider,
Director, Institute of Education Sciences.
[FR Doc. 2024-00699 Filed 1-12-24; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4000-01-P