Approved as amended by ED's memorandum to OMB of 08/07/97. In addition, ED has agreed to meet the following conditions: 1) ED shall continue to agressively pursue expanded electronic capability, to include on-line transmission; 2) ED will revise the methodology for collecting data on students with disabilities in these forms to be consistent with the new IDEA law in a manner that minimizes burden on schools and school districts. ED shall quantitatively address the issue of the burden generated by requiring schools to report subcategories of mental retardation when this reporting practice has been abandon- ed elsewhere, should the department choose to continue to do so. ED shall report on its internal studies regarding proxy indicators for minority overrepresentation in special education programs as a part of its quantitative study. 3) ED shall analyze how best to examine the issue of classroom composition, whether to use ability grouping, achievement grouping, or both, and for which grade levels these collections are most appropriate; 4) ED shall consider incorporating data element(s) regarding AP scores in (a) English and Foreign Languages and/or (b) History and Social Sciences to improve the utility of ED 102, question 9 by providing a comparison group for the technical AP score data; 5) OMB recommends that for the 1997 collection, reporting LEP by gender for suspension, corporal punishment, AP tests, and school completion shall be optional (while the utility of these questions is being studied). ED shall implement this term of clearance unless ED provides sufficient evidence of the utility of these data items to OMB prior to fielding the instrument. For the 1998 clearance package, ED shall present an analysis of the potential utility and burden of collecting this information to determine whether ED should include these data items in future reports. 6) ED shall send a copy of the documentation regarding completing these forms electronically (referenced on page 1 of the instruction sheets of both forms) as soon as it becomes available in the fall; 7) ED shall make a determination, based upon analysis of the two cycles of data, regarding the accuracy, reliability, and utility of the question regarding children who are identified as handicapped under Section 504 but who are not eligible for special education under IDEA, and present this analysis to OMB, should ED choose to continue to collect this data in 1998; 8) To the extent that comments received from the Wyoming Dept. of Education and from the Center for Law and Education were not answered elsewhere, the Department shall respond to their questions prior to fielding this instrument; 9) ED shall standardize its reporting dates, so that schools shall uniformly be collecting information as of one date in December, either the first or the fifteenth; 10) ED shall continue to use the information collected in response to item 7 of ED 101 and item 3 of ED 102 to assist in the targeting of compliance reviews, but shall not aggregate this data across districts for data analysis, given the methodological variation between districts and schools (respectively) in how they collect and calculate this data; 11) ED will make appropriate changes in the instructions to reflect changes made to the forms, and shall provide OMB with a revised copy of both the forms and instructions; 12) OCR will continue to work on collaborative collection efforts with appropriate entities, both within and outside ED, including OSEP, NCES, OBEMLA, and SDFS. This coordination will maximize the use of extant data sources within the Department to ensure that duplicative data are not collected; and 13) Finally, ED will provide OMB with a briefing on the 1998 E & S Compliance Report prior to submitting the 1998 clearance package.
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Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
07/31/1998
07/31/1998
31,713
0
0
295,700
0
0
0
0
0
The Elementary and Secondary School Civil Rights Compliance Report is the vehicle for the Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education, to acquire source material in the form of data and information regading civil rights compliance issues in the Nation's public elementary and secondary schools. Information from the E&S Compliance Report is used by regional OCR staff when they consider public school districts for compliance reviews and as source material when civil rights complaint investigations are conducted.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
Fall 1997 Elementary and Secondary School Civil Rights Compliance Report