OMB83C SLDS Webinars Change Sheet

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT
CHANGE WORKSHEET
Statewide Longitudinal Data System (SLDS) Survey 2017-2019 Webinars Change Request
Agency/Subagency

OMB Control Number

U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences
Enter only items that change
Agency form number(s)
Annual reporting and record keeping hour
burden
Number of respondent
Total annual responses
Percent of these responses
collected electronically
Total annual hours

1850-0933 v.3

Current Record

New Record

NA

NA

56
56

56
112

100%

100%

112

140

Difference

+ 28

Explanation of difference

The estimated respondent burden has
been increased to offer a webinar to state
education agencies to tell them about the
new survey and answer their questions.

Program change

+ 28
0

Adjustment
Annual reporting and record keeping cost
burden (in thousands of dollars)
Total annualized capital/startup costs

NA
NA
NA

Total annual costs (O&M)
Total annualized cost requested
Difference

NA
NA
NA
NA

Explanation of difference

NA
NA

Program change
Adjustment
Other change**

As authorized by the Educational Technical Assistance Act of 2002, Title II, the Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems
(SLDS) Grant Program has awarded competitive, cooperative agreement grants to states since 2005. Through grants
and a growing range of services and resources, the program has helped propel the successful design, development,
implementation, and expansion of K12 and P-20W (early learning through the workforce) longitudinal data systems.
These systems are intended to enhance the ability of States to efficiently and accurately manage, analyze, and use
education data, including individual student records. The SLDSs should help states, districts, schools, educators, and
other stakeholders to make data-informed decisions to improve student learning and outcomes; as well as to facilitate
research to increase student achievement and close achievement gaps. The SLDS grants extend for three to five
years for up to twenty million dollars per grantee, and grantees are obligated to submit annual reports and a final report
on the development and implementation of their systems. All 50 states, five territories, and the District of Columbia are
eligible to apply, and each state can apply multiple times to develop different aspects of their data system. Since
November 2005, 97 grants have been awarded. In addition to the grants, the program offers many services and
resources to assist education agencies with SLDS-related work. Best practices, lessons learned, and non-proprietary
products/solutions developed by recipients of these grants and other states are disseminated to aid all state and local
education agencies. The request to formalize the annual SLDS Interim Progress Report (IPR) as the SLDS Survey,
intended to provide insight on state and U.S. territory SLDS capacity for automated linking of K-12, teacher,
postsecondary, workforce, career and technical education (CTE), adult education, and early childhood data, and to
conduct the annual SLDS Survey from 2017 through 2019 was approved in February 2017 (1850-0933 v.1) with small
changes to the survey instrument approved in May 2017 (1850-0933 v.2). The SLDS Survey will help inform ongoing
evaluation and targeted technical assistance efforts to enhance the quality of the SLDS Program’s support to states.
This request is to offer a webinar to states to tell them about this new survey and answer any questions they have.
Signature of Senior Official or designee:

Date:

For OIRA Use

May 25, 2017
**This form cannot be used to extend an expiration date

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