80_FR_20282 80 FR 20210 - National Assessment Governing Board Quarterly Board Meeting

80 FR 20210 - National Assessment Governing Board Quarterly Board Meeting

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 72 (April 15, 2015)

Page Range20210-20211
FR Document2015-08658

The National Assessment Governing Board is announcing a teleconference scheduled on April 15, 2015 from 3:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EST to discuss proposed candidates for the vacant position of National Assessment Governing Board Executive Director. Following discussions, the full Board will take action on selection of the final candidate for the position of Executive Director. This notice is being published less than the 15-days due to the urgent need to ensure full Board participation in the selection of a new Executive Director for NAGB.

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 72 (Wednesday, April 15, 2015) 
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 72 (Wednesday, April 15, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20210-20211]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-08658]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION


National Assessment Governing Board Quarterly Board Meeting

AGENCY: National Assessment Governing Board, U.S. Department of 
Education.

ACTION: Notice of a closed teleconference meeting of the National 
Assessment Governing Board.

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DATES: April 15, 2015.

SUMMARY: The National Assessment Governing Board is announcing a 
teleconference scheduled on April 15, 2015 from 3:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. 
EST to discuss proposed candidates for the vacant position of National 
Assessment Governing Board Executive Director. Following discussions, 
the full Board will take action on selection of the final candidate for 
the position of Executive Director. This notice is being published less 
than the 15-days due to the urgent need to ensure full Board 
participation in the selection of a new Executive Director for NAGB.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice of this meeting is required under 
Section 10(a)(1)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA).
    The teleconference will be closed to the public because it is 
concerned with recommending applicants for a vacancy. Discussions will 
require full and frank advice from Governing Board members. This advice 
will involve professional judgments on the relative merits and 
qualifications of the proposed candidate and respective work 
experience. Such personnel matters involve the discussion of 
information that is of a personal nature, the disclosure of which would 
be a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy and, therefore, 
is protected from disclosure by exemptions 2 and 6 of Sec.  552b(c) of 
Title 5 of the United States Code.
    Minutes of the closed teleconference will be certified by the Board 
Chairman and retained in the public record.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Munira Mwalimu, Executive Officer, 800 
North Capitol Street NW., Suite 825, Washington, DC 20002, telephone: 
(202) 357-6938, fax: (202) 357-6945.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Statutory Authority and Function: The 
National Assessment Governing Board is established under Title III--
National Assessment of Educational Progress Authorization Act, Public 
Law 107-279. Information on the Board and its work can be found at 
www.nagb.gov.
    The Board is established to formulate policy for the National 
Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The Board's responsibilities 
include the following: selecting subject areas to be assessed, 
developing assessment frameworks and specifications, developing 
appropriate student achievement levels for each grade and subject 
tested, developing standards and procedures for interstate and national 
comparisons, improving the form and use of NAEP, developing guidelines 
for reporting and disseminating results, and releasing initial NAEP 
results to the public. Section 302 (6) of P.L. 107-279 provides the 
legislative authority for appointment of Governing Board staff.
    Access to Records of the Meeting: Pursuant to FACA requirements, 
the public may inspect the outcomes of Board action via an announcement 
of the appointment that will be posted at www.nagb.gov approximately 
two weeks after the teleconference meeting.
    Electronic Access to this Document: The official version of this 
document is the document published in the Federal Register. Free 
Internet access to the official edition of the Federal Register and the 
Code of Federal Regulations is available via the Federal Digital System 
at: www.thefederalregister.org/fdsys. At this site you can view this document, as well 
as all other documents of this Department published in the Federal 
Register, in text or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). To use PDF, 
you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available free at the 
site.
    You may also access documents of the Department published in the 
Federal Register by using the article search feature at: 
www.federalregister.gov. Specifically, through the advanced search 
feature at this site, you can limit your search to documents published 
by the Department.

    Authority: Pub. L. 107-279, Title III--National Assessment of 
Educational Progress Sec.  301 and Sec.  302.


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    Dated: April 10, 2015.
Mary Crovo,
Deputy Executive Director, National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB), 
U.S. Department of Education.
[FR Doc. 2015-08658 Filed 4-14-15; 8:45 am]
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20210 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 72 / Wednesday, April 15, 2015 / Notices Department; (2) will this information be Education Survey (ATES). The adult FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: processed and used in a timely manner; survey was developed in conjunction Munira Mwalimu, Executive Officer, (3) is the estimate of burden accurate; with the Interagency Working Group on 800 North Capitol Street NW., Suite 825, (4) how might the Department enhance Expanded Measures of Enrollment and Washington, DC 20002, telephone: (202) the quality, utility, and clarity of the Attainment (GEMEnA) and was pilot 357–6938, fax: (202) 357–6945. information to be collected; and (5) how tested in the 2014 NHES Feasibility might the Department minimize the Study. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Statutory burden of this collection on the Authority and Function: The National Dated: April 10, 2015. respondents, including through the use Assessment Governing Board is Kate Mullan, of information technology. Please note established under Title III—National Acting Director, Information Collection that written comments received in Clearance Division, Privacy, Information and Assessment of Educational Progress response to this notice will be Records Management Services, Office of Authorization Act, Public Law 107–279. considered public records. Management. Information on the Board and its work Title of Collection: National [FR Doc. 2015–08634 Filed 4–14–15; 8:45 am] can be found at www.nagb.gov. Household Education Survey 2016 BILLING CODE 4000–01–P The Board is established to formulate (NHES:2016) Full-scale Data Collection. OMB Control Number: 1850–0768. policy for the National Assessment of Type of Review: A reinstatement of a Educational Progress (NAEP). The DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Board’s responsibilities include the previously approved information collection. National Assessment Governing Board following: selecting subject areas to be Respondents/Affected Public: Quarterly Board Meeting assessed, developing assessment Individuals. frameworks and specifications, Total Estimated Number of Annual AGENCY: National Assessment developing appropriate student Responses: 187,536. Governing Board, U.S. Department of achievement levels for each grade and Total Estimated Number of Annual Education. subject tested, developing standards and Burden Hours: 30,373. ACTION: Notice of a closed procedures for interstate and national Abstract: The National Household teleconference meeting of the National comparisons, improving the form and Education Surveys Program (NHES) is Assessment Governing Board. use of NAEP, developing guidelines for conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics’ (NCES). NHES is DATES: April 15, 2015. reporting and disseminating results, and NCES’s principal mechanism for releasing initial NAEP results to the SUMMARY: The National Assessment addressing education topics appropriate public. Section 302 (6) of P.L. 107–279 Governing Board is announcing a for households rather than teleconference scheduled on April 15, provides the legislative authority for establishments. Such topics cover a 2015 from 3:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EST to appointment of Governing Board staff. wide range of issues, including early discuss proposed candidates for the Access to Records of the Meeting: childhood care and education, vacant position of National Assessment Pursuant to FACA requirements, the children’s readiness for school, parent Governing Board Executive Director. public may inspect the outcomes of perceptions of school safety and Following discussions, the full Board Board action via an announcement of discipline, before- and after-school will take action on selection of the final the appointment that will be posted at activities of school-age children, candidate for the position of Executive www.nagb.gov approximately two weeks participation in adult education and Director. This notice is being published after the teleconference meeting. training, parent involvement in less than the 15-days due to the urgent education, school choice, need to ensure full Board participation Electronic Access to this Document: homeschooling, and civic involvement. in the selection of a new Executive The official version of this document is The NHES consists of a series of rotating Director for NAGB. the document published in the Federal surveys using a two-stage design in SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice of Register. Free Internet access to the which a household screener collects this meeting is required under Section official edition of the Federal Register household membership and key 10(a)(1)(2) of the Federal Advisory and the Code of Federal Regulations is characteristics for sampling and then Committee Act (FACA). available via the Federal Digital System appropriate topical survey(s) are mailed The teleconference will be closed to at: www.gpo.gov/fdsys. At this site you to sample members. Data from the the public because it is concerned with can view this document, as well as all NHES are used to provide national recommending applicants for a vacancy. other documents of this Department cross-sectional estimates on populations Discussions will require full and frank published in the Federal Register, in of special interest to education advice from Governing Board members. text or Adobe Portable Document researchers and policymakers. NHES This advice will involve professional Format (PDF). To use PDF, you must surveys were conducted approximately judgments on the relative merits and have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is every other year from 1991 through qualifications of the proposed candidate available free at the site. 2007 using random digit dial (RDD) and respective work experience. Such You may also access documents of the methodology; beginning in 2012 NHES personnel matters involve the Department published in the Federal began collecting data by mail to improve discussion of information that is of a Register by using the article search response rates. This submission seeks personal nature, the disclosure of which clearance to conduct NHES:2016, which feature at: www.federalregister.gov. would be a clearly unwarranted Specifically, through the advanced tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES will repeat the child topical surveys invasion of personal privacy and, conducted in 2012: the Parent and search feature at this site, you can limit therefore, is protected from disclosure Family Involvement in Education (PFI) by exemptions 2 and 6 of § 552b(c) of your search to documents published by and the Early Childhood Program Title 5 of the United States Code. the Department. Participation (ECPP), and will include Minutes of the closed teleconference Authority: Pub. 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Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 72 / Wednesday, April 15, 2015 / Notices 20211 Dated: April 10, 2015. Register. Free Internet access to the burden of the proposed collection on Mary Crovo, official edition of the Federal Register the respondents, including through the Deputy Executive Director, National and the Code of Federal Regulations is use of automated collection techniques. Assessment Governing Board (NAGB), U.S. available via the Federal Digital System DATES: Comments regarding this Department of Education. at: www.gpo.gov/fdsys. At this site you collection must be received on or before [FR Doc. 2015–08658 Filed 4–14–15; 8:45 am] can view this document, as well as all May 15, 2015. If you anticipate that you BILLING CODE 4000–01–P other documents of this Department will be submitting comments, but find published in the Federal Register, in it difficult to do so within the period of text or Adobe Portable Document time allowed by this notice, please DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Format (PDF). To use PDF you must advise the DOE Desk Officer at OMB of have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is your intention to make a submission as Applications for New Awards; available free at the site. soon as possible. The Desk Officer may Investing in Innovation Fund— You may also access documents of the be telephoned at 202–395–4718. Development Grants; Correction Department published in the Federal ADDRESSES: Written comments should Register by using the article search be sent to the DOE Desk Officer, Office AGENCY: Office of Innovation and feature at: www.federalregister.gov. of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Improvement, Department of Education. Specifically, through the advanced Office of Management and Budget, New ACTION: Notice; correction. search feature at this site, you can limit Executive Office Building, Room 10102, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance your search to documents published by 735 17th Street NW., Washington, DC (CFDA) Number: 84.411P (Development the Department. 20503. grants Pre-Application) and 84.411C Dated: April 10, 2015. And to Dr. Craig Zamuda, U.S. (Development grants Full Application). Nadya Chinoy Dabby, Department of Energy, EPSA–20, 1000 SUMMARY: On March 30, 2015, we Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Independence Avenue SW., published in the Federal Register (80 Improvement. Washington, DC 20585, or by fax 202 FR 16648) a notice inviting applications [FR Doc. 2015–08631 Filed 4–14–15; 8:45 am] 586–5345, or by email at craig.zamuda@ for new awards under the Investing in BILLING CODE 4000–01–P hq.doe.gov. Innovation Fund (i3) Development FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. grants. This correction notice changes Craig Zamuda, U.S. Department of the deadline date for transmittal of pre- DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Energy, EPSA–20, 1000 Independence applications from April 29, 2015, to Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20585, or May 5, 2015. Proposed Agency Information by fax 202 586–5345, or by email at DATES: Effective April 15, 2015. Collection craig.zamuda@hq.doe.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This information collection request contains: Correction ACTION: Notice and request for OMB review and comment. (1) OMB No:. ‘‘New’’; (2) Information In the Federal Register of March 30, Collection Request Title: Partnership for 2015 (80 FR 16648), on page 16648, in SUMMARY: The Department of Energy Energy Sector Climate Resilience; (3) the middle of the third column under (DOE) has submitted to the Office of Type of Request: New collection; (4) the heading Overview Information, and Management and Budget (OMB) for Purpose: To enhance the resilience of on page 16656, in the middle of the first clearance, a proposal for collection of the nation’s power sector to extreme column, under 3. Submission Dates and information under the provisions of the weather and climate change, the Times, we change the deadline date for Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The Department of Energy is establishing a transmittal of pre-applications from proposed collection will require annual partnership program with power sector ‘‘April 29, 2015,’’ to ‘‘May 5, 2015.’’ reports from power companies that companies. On an annual basis, Program Authority: American Recovery voluntarily join the Department’s new participating companies are asked to and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Division A, Partnership for Energy Sector Climate report on activities they have Section 14007, Pub. L. 111–5. Resilience. The goal of this partnership undertaken to improve their resilience FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: is for the Department and power to extreme weather and climate change. Kelly Terpak, U.S. Department of company participants to work This information will help facilitate Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., cooperatively to enhance the energy improved resilience throughout the Room 4C107, Washington, DC 20202– security of the nation’s electricity sector and better inform the 5930. Telephone: (202) 453–7122. FAX: infrastructure. The annual reports Department’s activities in support of (202) 205–5631 or by email: i3@ed.gov. required of partners will include these efforts. (5) Annual Estimated If you use a telecommunications summaries of activities undertaken Number of Respondents: 25; (6) Annual device (TDD) or a text telephone (TTY), during the proceeding year including, Estimated Number of Total Responses: call the Federal Relay Service, toll free, for example, vulnerability assessments, 50 (first year, 25 thereafter). (7) Annual at 1–800–877–8339. resilience strategies, information on Estimated Number of Burden Hours: 212 Accessible Format: Individuals with costs and benefits of actions taken, and hours; (8) Annual Estimated Reporting disabilities can obtain this document best practices. Comments are invited on: and Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $8,959 and a copy of the application package in (a) Whether the proposed collection of total program-wide annual costs. an accessible format (e.g., braille, large information is necessary for the proper Statutory Authority: Title XIII of the tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES print, audiotape, or compact disc) on performance of the functions of the Energy Independence and Security Act request to the program contact person department; (b) the accuracy of the of 2007 calls for a variety of activities listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Department’s estimate of the burden of to support the modernization of the CONTACT. the proposed collection of information; Nation’s electricity transmission and Electronic Access to This Document: (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility distribution system to maintain a The official version of this document is and clarity of the information being reliable and secure electricity the document published in the Federal collected; and (d) ways to minimize the infrastructure. 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CollectionFederal Register
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of a closed teleconference meeting of the National Assessment Governing Board.
DatesApril 15, 2015.
ContactMunira Mwalimu, Executive Officer, 800 North Capitol Street NW., Suite 825, Washington, DC 20002, telephone: (202) 357-6938, fax: (202) 357-6945.
FR Citation80 FR 20210 
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