TFS PFS v6 Special District Recruitment Material Change Sheet

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT
CHANGE WORKSHEET

2021-22 TFS Special District Recruitment Material
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

Current Record

New Record

NA

NA

25,688
25,688

25,688
25,688

5,136

5,136

22%

Percent of these responses
collected electronically
Total annual hours

1850-0617 v.6

Difference
Explanation of difference
Program change

22%
0

0
0

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

NA

NA

NA
NA

NA
NA
NA

Difference
Explanation of difference

NA
NA

Program change
Adjustment
Other changes**

The Teacher Follow-Up Survey (TFS) is a follow-up survey of public and private elementary and secondary school
teachers who participated in the National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS) during the previous school year. The
purpose of the survey is to determine how many teachers remained at the same school, moved to another school, or left
the profession. Historically, the TFS has also been conducted the school year following the Schools and Staffing Survey
(SASS), the predecessor survey to the NTPS. Redesigned from the SASS with a focus on flexibility, timeliness, and
integration with other ED data, the NTPS system allows for school, principal, and teacher characteristics to be analyzed in
relation to one another. The major objectives of the TFS are to measure the attrition rate for teachers; examine the
characteristics of teachers who stayed in the teaching profession and those who changed professions or retired; obtain
activity or occupational data for those who left the position of a K-12 teacher; obtain reasons for moving to a new school
or leaving the K-12 teaching profession; and collect data on job satisfaction. The TFS/PFS main study was approved in
July 2021, with a change request to update teacher recruitment materials approved in August 2021 (OMB# 1850-0617
v.4-5). During preparation for the 2021-22 TFS/PFS the team has encountered unexpected procedural changes in special
districts and an increased request for detailed information that is uncharacteristic of previous cycles. In this submission,
NCES proposes a few minor changes in order to respond to special district demands, as described in full in the attached
change memo. This requested change does not affect the approved total cost to the federal government for conducting
this study nor the estimated respondent burden.
Signature of Senior Official or designee:

Date:

**This form cannot be used to extend an expiration date
OMB 83-C

August 26, 2021

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