Integrated Evaluation of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Funding, Implementation and Outcomes

ICR 201101-1850-005

OMB: 1850-0877

Federal Form Document

ICR Details
1850-0877 201101-1850-005
Historical Active 201011-1850-004
ED/IES 4413
Integrated Evaluation of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Funding, Implementation and Outcomes
Revision of a currently approved collection   No
Regular
Approved with change 04/05/2011
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA) 01/31/2011
  Inventory as of this Action Requested Previously Approved
04/30/2014 36 Months From Approved 01/31/2014
11,102 0 5,551
6,831 0 1,509
0 0 0

On February 17, 2009, President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) into law (Pub. L. 111-5). ARRA supports investments in innovative strategies that are intended to lead to improved results for students, long-term gains in school and local education agency (LEA) capacity for success, and increased productivity and effectiveness. This evaluation will focus on answering four sets of research questions: • Money: Which states/districts/schools get which program funds, when, and how much? What do they spend it on? How much overlap is there across ARRA funding streams in terms of who receives the funding or what grantees do with it? • Strategies: What efforts and activities are underway as a result of each of the ARRA programs and overall? What state policies are changing or being enacted? What specific interventions are districts and schools implementing? How do the strategies line up with the four assurances or with the specific strategies promoted by the different programs? • Implementation Process: How much coordination do states and districts report in the decision-making and planning for implementation across the various streams of funds? Are districts that receive funds directly (e.g., thru i3) employing strategies that are consistent with their state's policies and plans (e.g., under Race to the Top)? On an ongoing basis, what challenges do grantees face in enacting their plans and what successes have they had? • Outcomes: Is receiving more ARRA funds or certain types of funds associated with improvement in student outcomes or other key measures (e.g., more equitable distribution of teacher quality)? The integrated evaluation will draw on existing data, including ED data collections, ED ARRA program files, ARRA required reporting, and databases of achievement and other outcomes. The evaluation will also collect new information through surveys of (1) the 50 states and the District of Columbia, (2) a nationally representative sample of school districts, and (3) a nationally representative sample of schools within the sampled school districts. Surveys are planned for spring 2011, spring 2012, and spring 2013. Subsamples of school districts will also be drawn to receive a smaller set of questions (polls); these polls will be administered twice between 2011 and 2013. A report will be prepared in the first year of the evaluation to describe the distribution of funding. A report and state tabulations will be prepared after each annual survey. The first report, based on the 2011 surveys, will focus on early ARRA implementation and strategies. The second report, based on the 2012 surveys, will expand upon strategies implemented under ARRA. The final report will draw upon existing data on outcomes as well as data from the 2013 surveys. This is the second phase - the baseline studies phase of the evaluation.

PL: Pub.L. 111 - 5 Title VIII Name of Law: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
  
None

Not associated with rulemaking

  75 FR 61710 10/06/2010
76 FR 5356 01/31/2011
Yes

  Total Approved Previously Approved Change Due to New Statute Change Due to Agency Discretion Change Due to Adjustment in Estimate Change Due to Potential Violation of the PRA
Annual Number of Responses 11,102 5,551 0 5,551 0 0
Annual Time Burden (Hours) 6,831 1,509 0 5,322 0 0
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars) 0 0 0 0 0 0
Yes
Miscellaneous Actions
No
This collection is for the second phase - the baseline surveys - of this ARRA collection. The burden hours from the recruitment phase 1850-0877 (4385) are being carried over and added to the burden hours being requested for this second phase.

$2,110,230
Yes Part B of Supporting Statement
No
No
No
Yes
Uncollected
Marsha Silverberg 202 208-7178

  No

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;
 
 
 
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01/31/2011


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