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requirements should be electronically 

mailed to ICDocketMgr@ed.gov or 

mailed to U.S. Department of Education, 

400 Maryland Avenue, SW., LBJ, 

Washington, DC 20202–4537. Please 

note that written comments received in 

response to this notice will be 

considered public records. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) requires 

that Federal agencies provide interested 

parties an early opportunity to comment 

on information collection requests. The 

Director, Information Collection 

Clearance Division, Regulatory 

Information Management Services, 

Office of Management, publishes this 

notice containing proposed information 

collection requests at the beginning of 

the Departmental review of the 

information collection. The Department 

of Education is especially interested in 

public comment addressing the 

following issues: (1) Is this collection 

necessary to the proper functions of the 

Department; (2) will this information be 

processed and used in a timely manner; 

(3) is the estimate of burden accurate; 

(4) how might the Department enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (5) how 

might the Department minimize the 

burden of this collection on the 

respondents, including through the use 

of information technology. 

Dated: February 24, 2011. 

Darrin A. King, 

Director, Information Collection Clearance 

Division, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of Management. 

Institute of Education Sciences 

Type of Review: Revision. 

Title of Collection: Schools and 

Staffing Survey (SASS 2011/12) Full 

Scale Data Collection. 

OMB Control Number: 1850–0598. 

Agency Form Number(s): N/A. 

Frequency of Responses: Once. 

Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal 

Government, State Educational 

Agenices or Local Educational Agencies. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 215,553. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 91,226. 

Abstract: The Schools and Staffing 

Survey (SASS) is an in-depth, 

nationally-representative survey of first 

through twelfth grade public and private 

school teachers, principals, schools, 

library media centers, and school 

districts. Kindergarten teachers in 

schools with at least a first grade are 

also surveyed. For traditional public 

school districts, principals, schools, 

teachers and school libraries, the survey 

estimates are State-representative. For 

public charter schools, principals, 

teachers, and school libraries, the 

survey estimates are nationallyrepresentative. For private school 

principals, schools, and teachers, the 

survey estimates are representative of 

private school types. There are two 

additional components within SASS’s 

4-year data collection cycle: the Teacher 

Follow-up Survey and the Principal 

Follow-up Survey, which are conducted 

a year after the SASS main collection, 

and the approval for which will be 

sought at a later date. SASS respondents 

include public and private school 

principals, teachers, and school and 

school district staff. Topics covered 

include, but are not limited to, 

demographic characteristics of teachers 

and principals, school staffing, school 

programs and services, school library 

staffing, school library usage, teacher 

professional development, district 

policies on teacher recruitment and 

retention, and teacher certification. This 

submission for SASS 2011/12 requests 

Office of Management and Budget 

approval for full-scale data collection 

activities to take place during school 

year 2011–12. These data collection 

activities include administering the 

teacher listing form for teacher 

sampling, and collection of all survey 

questionnaires for districts, schools, 

principals, teachers, and school 

libraries. 

Copies of the proposed information 

collection request may be accessed from 

http://edicsweb.ed.gov, by selecting the 

‘‘Browse Pending Collections’’ link and 

by clicking on link number 4528. When 

you access the information collection, 

click on ‘‘Download Attachments’’ to 

view. Written requests for information 

should be addressed to U.S. Department 

of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, 

SW., LBJ, Washington, DC 20202–4537. 

Requests may also be electronically 

mailed to ICDocketMgr@ed.gov or faxed 

to 202–401–0920. Please specify the 

complete title of the information 

collection and OMB Control Number 

when making your request. 

Individuals who use a 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Information 

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877– 

8339. 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Arbitration Panel Decision Under the 

Randolph-Sheppard Act 

AGENCY: Department of Education. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Education 

(Department) gives notice that, on 

September 28, 2010, an arbitration panel 

rendered a decision in the matter of 

Calvette Brown v. Illinois Department of 

Human Services, Division of 

Rehabilitative Services, Case no. R–S/ 

09–3. This panel was convened by the 

Department under 20 U.S.C. 107d–1(a), 

after the Department received a 

complaint filed by the petitioner, 

Calvette Brown. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: You 

may obtain a copy of the full text of the 

arbitration panel decision from Suzette 

E. Haynes, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

room 5022, Potomac Center Plaza, 

Washington, DC 20202–2800. 

Telephone: (202) 245–7374. If you use a 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TDD), call the Federal Relay Service 

(FRS), toll-free, at 1–800–877–8339. 

Individuals with disabilities may 

obtain this document in an accessible 

format (e.g., braille, large print, 

audiotape, or computer diskette) on 

request to the contact person listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under 

section 6(c) of the Randolph-Sheppard 

Act (Act), 20 U.S.C. 107d–2(c), the 

Secretary publishes in the Federal 

Register a synopsis of each arbitration 

panel decision affecting the 

administration of vending facilities on 

Federal and other property. 

Background 

Calvette Brown (Complainant) alleged 

violations by the Illinois Department of 

Human Services, Division of 

Rehabilitative Services, the State 

licensing agency (SLA), under the Act 

and implementing regulations in 34 CFR 

part 395. Specifically, Complainant 

alleged that the SLA improperly 

administered the transfer and promotion 

policies and procedures of the Illinois 

Randolph-Sheppard Vending Facility 

Program in violation of the Act, 

implementing regulations under the 

Act, and State rules and regulations in 

Complainant’s bid to manage the 

vending machine facility at the United 

States Postal Service facility (USPS 

facility) on Northwest Highway in 

Palatine, Illinois. 

On January 28, 2009, Complainant 

participated in an interview process 

with the SLA concerning the USPS 

facility. On February 10, 2009, 

Complainant was selected as the 

successful bidder and awarded a 

vending contract at the USPS facility. 


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On February 20, 2009, another vendor 

in the selection process filed a grievance 

with the SLA contesting the 

Complainant’s award of the USPS 

facility contract. On the same date, the 

SLA notified Complainant that the 

implementation of her vending contract 

at the USPS facility was being 

suspended pending the outcome of the 

other vendor’s grievance. 

On May 14, 2009, the SLA held a state 

fair hearing for the vendor contesting 

Complainant’s award of the USPS 

facility. On June 4, 2009, the hearing 

officer ruled that the January 28, 2009 

interview process, in which 

Complainant participated, was not 

impartial or objective. Thus, the hearing 

officer ordered that the January 28, 2009 

interview process be invalidated and 

that another interview process be held. 

On June 9, 2009, Complainant filed a 

grievance with the SLA of the hearing 

officer’s decision in the other vendor’s 

state fair hearing. Complainant 

participated in the new interview 

process on July 2, 2009. However, she 

was not awarded the USPS facility 

contract. 

On July 22, 2009, Complainant filed a 

grievance with the SLA challenging the 

SLA’s decision to award the contract for 

the USPS facility to the other vendor 

after the conclusion of the new 

interview process. On July 24, 2009, the 

SLA filed a motion with the hearing 

officer to dismiss Complainant’s 

grievance. On July 27, 2009, 

Complainant filed a written objection to 

the SLA’s motion. 

On August 12, 2009, a state fair 

hearing was held on the award of the 

contract to another vendor. The hearing 

officer directed both the Complainant 

and the SLA to submit briefs regarding 

the SLA’s Motion to Dismiss. On 

September 23, 2009, the hearing officer 

issued a Memorandum recommending 

that the SLA’s motion be granted, ruling 

that the Complainant did not have the 

right to appeal a decision to award a 

contract to another vendor. However, 

the hearing officer noted that 

Complainant had the right to challenge 

the SLA’s decision to terminate her 

contract at the USPS facility in a 

separate process under the SLA’s 

administrative rules. 

On September 25, 2009, the SLA 

director issued a decision as final 

agency action adopting the hearing 

officer’s recommendation and dismissed 

Complainant’s grievance on the grounds 

that she sought to appeal a nonappealable issue—namely, the final 

decision in the grievance of another 

vendor in violation of the SLA’s 

administrative rules. Complainant 

sought review by a federal arbitration 

panel of the SLA’s final decision. On 

July 21, 2010, a federal arbitration panel 

heard this complaint. According to the 

arbitration panel, the central issue was 

whether the Illinois Department of 

Human Services, Division of 

Rehabilitative Services wrongfully 

dismissed the attempt by the 

Complainant to appeal a decision 

rendered in another blind vendor’s state 

fair hearing. 

Arbitration Panel Decision 

After hearing testimony and 

reviewing all of the evidence, the panel 

ruled to uphold the state fair hearing 

officer’s decision to summarily dismiss 

the Complainant’s appeal of another 

vendor’s state fair hearing decision. 

Specifically, the panel relied on the 

Illinois Administrative Code (IAC) Title 

89; Social Services, Chapter IV, 

Department of Human Services, 

Subchapter a: General Program 

Provisions, Part 510, Appeals and 

Hearings Sections 510.20 and 510.l30 

which states that a vendor cannot 

appeal another vendor’s decision. 

However, the panel noted that the IAC 

does allow Complainant to file her own 

grievance in opposition to the other 

vendor being awarded the USPS facility 

contract. The panel further denied 

Complainant’s request for costs and 

attorneys’ fees concluding that these 

expenses were incurred by the 

Complainant when she pursued the 

wrong course of action instead of filing 

her own grievance regarding the 

decision to award the other vendor the 

contract for the USPS facility. 

The views and opinions expressed by 

the panel do not necessarily represent 

the views and opinions of the 

Department. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

You can view this document, as well as 

all other Department of Education 

documents published in the Federal 

Register, in text or Adobe Portable 

Document Format (PDF) on the Internet 

at the following site: http://www.ed.gov/ 

news/fedregister. To use PDF you must 

have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 

available free at this site. 

Note: 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 on GPO 

Access at: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/ 

index.html. 

Dated: February 25, 2011. 

Alexa Posny, 

Assistant Secretary for Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services. 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Privacy Act of 1974; Computer 

Matching Program 

AGENCY: Department of Education. 

ACTION: Notice—Computer Matching 

between the U.S. Department of 

Education and the Social Security 

Administration. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Computer 

Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 

1988, Public Law 100–503, the 

Computer Matching and Privacy 

Protections Amendments of 1990, Pub. 

L. 101–508, and Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) guidance on the 

conduct of computer matching 

programs, notice is hereby given of the 

renewal of the computer matching 

program between the U.S. Department 

of Education (ED) (recipient agency), 

and the Social Security Administration 

(SSA) (source agency). This renewal of 

the computer matching program 

between SSA and ED will become 

effective as explained in this notice. 

In accordance with the Privacy Act of 

1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended, OMB 

Final Guidance Interpreting the 

Provisions of Public Law 100–503, the 

Computer Matching and Privacy 

Protection Act of 1988, published in the 

Federal Register on June 19, 1989 (54 

FR 25818), and OMB Circular No. A– 

130, Transmittal Memorandum #4, 

Management of Federal Information 

Resources (November 28, 2000) we 

provide the following information: 

1. Names of Participating Agencies 

The U.S. Department of Education 

and the Social Security Administration. 

2. Purpose of the Match 

The purpose of this matching program 

between ED and SSA is to assist the 

Secretary of Education with verification 

of immigration status and Social 

Security numbers (SSNs) under 20 

U.S.C. 1091(g) and (p). SSA will verify 

the issuance of an SSN to, and will 

confirm the citizenship status, as 

recorded in SSA’s records, of those 

students and parents applying for aid 

under a student financial assistance 

program authorized under Title IV of 

the Higher Education Act of 1965, as 

amended (HEA). Verification of this 

information by SSA will help ED satisfy 

its obligation to ensure that individuals 

applying for financial assistance meet 

eligibility requirements imposed by the 

HEA. 

Verification by this computer 

matching program effectuates the 

purpose of the HEA because it provides 

an efficient and comprehensive method 


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