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Date: October 23, 2012 

To: Sharon Mar, OMB Desk Officer 

From: Alex Goni row De uty Assistan ecretary for Management and Planning, P , P 

Office of Elementary and Secondary Education 

Subject: Change to Consolidated State Application (1810-0576) to Include Revised 

Accountability Workbook for States Granted ESEA Flexibility 

OESE would like to submit a change request (OMB 83-C) to amend the Consolidated State 

Application (1810-0576) to include a revised Accountability Workbook for States that have been 

approved for ESEA flexibility. The current Accountability Workbook was put in place in 2003 

as a tool designed to ensure both transparency as well as compliance with certain assessment and 

accountability requirements of Title I, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as 

amended by the No Child Left Behind Act. However, for those States that have received ESEA 

flexibility, the current Accountability Workbook does not include all the information necessary 

to ensure compliance with Title I, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as 

amended by the No Child Left Behind Act. The revised Accountability Workbook would be 

used in lieu of the current Accountability Workbook for those States that have been approved for 

ESEA flexibility. 

Attached is the revised Accountability Workbook for approved ESEA flexibility States (revised 

Workbook). The revised Workbook would be submitted as an Addendum to the States' ESEA 

Flexibility requests. 

The revised Workbook is significantly shorter than the prior workbook reflecting the fact that 

ESEA flexibility request addresses some of the same information. The revised ESEA flexibility 

addendum asks for only three types of information – 

1) Relevant categories of information from the original Accountability Workbook that is not 

in ESEA flexibility requests; 

2) Relevant categories of information from the original Accountability Workbooks that is 

not consistently addressed across ESEA flexibility requests; and 

3) Technical information that may or may not be in ESEA flexibility requests but which ED 

regularly uses and is important enough to be called out. 

Additionally the revised Workbook— 

• includes a question about State AMA03 calculations thereby eliminating the need for a 

separate State submission regarding AMA03 for Title III purposes; and 

• is formatted in a way that should enable states to complete with relatively brief responses. 

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Staff piloted the revised Workbook with the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE). 

Feedback f rom the pilot was positive and changes were made in the template to reflect MDE 

comments. Further, MDE staff reported that it took about 8 hours to complete, significantly less 

time that the original Accountability Workbook. 

In addition to reducing burden on States, the revised Workbook is designed to facilitate ED 

consideration and approval of accountability plans. In place of the detailed decision memos used 

previously, the ED comment column now will be used to identify any policy issues as well as to 

reflect final decisions. Once the revised Workbook is approved, the ED comment column will 

be retained for ED's records, but dropped from the version posted on ed.gov . 

This change will not increase the burden associated with the collection 1810-0576. This 

collection already incorporates the burden associated with completing and amending the 

Accountability Workbook. Since revised Workbook will replace the original Accountability 

Workbook for those States that have been approved for ESEA flexibility, their burden will not 

increase. States that have not received ESEA flexibility will not see their burden increase either. 

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