Change List Memo

TO: Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs

Office of Management and Budget

FROM: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education

U.S. Department of Education

RE: Nonmaterial and Non-substantive Edits to 1810-0683

The Office of Migrant Education (OME) is requesting updates to this Information Collection Request (ICR) to align Minimum Data Element (MDE) #9 to other Migrant Education Program (MEP) collections. Specifically, the proposed value change will align data collected by MSIX to data collected via the National Certificate of Eligibility (COE). Both data collections are required by the U.S. Department of Education (the Department). The proposed edit to the Migrant Student Information Exchange (MSIX) MDE list is on page 2 of the MSIX Minimum Data Elements list.

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• MDE #9 – Sex – Change approved value “Nonbinary” to “Other” to align with the MEP COE.

  1. On 1/31/23, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) previously approved the use of “Other” for the MSIX MDEs.

  2. On 2/17/23, OME filed a non-substantive change request to exchange “Nonbinary” for “Other”. This request was approved 4/24/23.

  3. However, on 8/4/2023, OME was approved to collect the value “Other” on the MEP National COE. Since the National COE is the data collection instrument for MSIX, we are requesting the third value for sex on the MSIX MDE information collection be reverted to “Other” to align with the MEP National COE.