The U.S. Department of Education (ED)
has a continued need to support existing regulations for the use of
the Migrant Student Information Exchange (MSIX), a nationwide,
electronic records exchange mechanism mandated under Title I, Part
C of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as amended.
As a condition of receiving a grant of funds under the Migrant
Education Program (MEP), each State educational agency (SEA) is
required to collect, maintain, and submit minimum health and
education-related data to MSIX within established time-frames.
These regulations facilitate timely school enrollment, placement,
and accrual of secondary course credits for migratory children and
help us determine accurate migratory child counts and meet other
MEP reporting requirements. The MEP is authorized under sections
1301-1309 in Title I, Part C of the ESEA. MSIX and the minimum data
elements (MDEs) are authorized specifically under section 1308(b)
of the ESEA. The burden hours and costs associated with this data
collection are required to ensure that States implement and utilize
MSIX for interstate migrant student records exchange, which will
then enable the Department to meet the statutory mandate in section
1308(b) of the ESEA to facilitate the electronic exchange of MDEs
by SEAs to address the educational and related needs of migratory
children.
There are three points of
adjustment in this renewal notice. First, start-up data submission
burden has been removed as all participating SEAs are fully
certified to have completed the start-up work necessary to collect
and transmit data to MSIX. Second, the number of participating SEAs
has been adjusted from 50 to 46, with the following SEAs declining
participation in the MEP program. Lastly, the annual burden hours
has been adjusted by -9,102 to reflect the verified numbers from
2016-2017 reporting period.
$4,041,949
No
No
No
No
No
No
Uncollected
Maria Hishikawa 202
260-1473
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;
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.