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review and discuss the July 31-August 

2, 2014 Board meeting agenda, receive 

updates on the NAEP budget, 

assessment schedule, and 

reauthorization, and discuss Board 

Committee issues and challenges to be 

addressed by the respective Board 

Committees. 

Following this session, the Executive 

Committee will meet in closed session 

from 5:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. to receive 

and discuss costs for specific activities 

under individual and collective current 

contracts, and independent government 

cost estimates from the National Center 

for Education Statistics (NCES) staff on 

various options for proposed item 

development, data collection, scoring 

and analysis, and reporting of NAEP for 

2014–2018. The implications of the cost 

estimates and funds in support of the 

NAEP Assessment Schedule and future 

NAEP activities will also be discussed. 

This part of the meeting must be 

conducted in closed session because 

public disclosure of this information 

would likely have an adverse financial 

effect on the NAEP program by 

providing confidential cost details and 

proprietary contract costs of current 

contractors to the public. Discussion of 

this information would be likely to 

significantly impede implementation of 

a proposed agency action if conducted 

in open session. Such matters are 

protected by exemption 9(B) of section 

552b of Title 5 U.S.C. 

On August 1, 2014, the full Board will 

meet in open session from 8:30 a.m. to 

9:30 a.m. The Board will review and 

approve the August 2014 Board meeting 

agenda and meeting minutes from the 

May 15–17, 2014 Quarterly Board 

meeting. This session will be followed 

by the Chairman’s remarks. Following 

these remarks, the Executive Director of 

the Governing Board will provide a 

report, followed by updates on the 

National Center for Education Statistics 

(NCES) and NAEP from the Director of 

the Institute of Education Sciences 

(IES). Thereafter, the Board will recess 

for Committee meetings from 9:45 a.m. 

to 12:30 p.m. 

The Reporting and Dissemination 

Committee, Assessment Development 

Committee, and the Committee on 

Standards, Design and Methodology 

(COSDAM) will meet in open sessions 

from 9:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. 

Following the Committee meetings, 

the Board will convene in closed 

session from 12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. to 

receive a briefing and discuss the NAEP 

Report on School Composition and the 

Black-White Achievement Gap. The 

Board will receive an embargoed 

briefing on preliminary results, which 

will include assessment data and results 

that cannot be discussed in an open 

meeting prior to their official approval 

and release by the National Assessment 

Governing Board. Premature disclosure 

of these results would significantly 

impede implementation of the NAEP 

assessment program, and is therefore 

protected by exemption 9(B) of section 

552b(c) of Title 5 United States Code. 

On August 1, 2014 from 2:00 p.m. to 

3:15 p.m., the Board will meet in open 

session to engage in a question and 

answer session with representatives 

from the Common Core State 

Assessment Consortia. Thereafter, from 

3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., the Board will 

meet in closed session to discuss and 

take action on the NAEP Schedule of 

Assessments. The action will require 

discussions on independent government 

cost estimates that will likely have an 

impact on the NAEP Schedule of 

Assessments. This part of the meeting 

must be conducted in closed session 

because public disclosure of this 

information would likely have an 

adverse financial effect on the NAEP 

program by providing contractors 

attending an unfair advantage in 

procurement and contract negotiations 

for NAEP. Discussion of this 

information would be likely to 

significantly impede implementation of 

a proposed agency action if conducted 

in open session. Such matters are 

protected by exemption 9(B) of section 

552b of Title 5 U.S.C. 

On August 2, 2014, the Nominations 

Committee will meet in closed session 

from 7:30 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. to discuss 

candidates for the eight Board vacancies 

for terms beginning on October 1, 2015. 

The Committee’s discussions pertain 

solely to internal personnel rules and 

practices of an agency and information 

of a personal nature where disclosure 

would constitute an unwarranted 

invasion of personal privacy. As such, 

the discussions are protected by 

exemptions 2 and 6 of section 552b(c) 

of Title 5 of the United States Code. 

On August 2, 2014, the Board will 

meet in open session from 8:30 a.m. to 

12:00 p.m. The Board will receive a 

briefing on an Inside NAEP series— 

Expanding Scales to Improve 

Achievement from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. 

Following this session, from 9:30 a.m. to 

10:15 a.m. the Board will receive a 

briefing on research work on NAEP 

Contextual Questions. 

Outgoing Board members Brent 

Houston, Tom Luna, and David Driscoll 

will provide remarks from 10:30 a.m. to 

10:45 a.m. The Board is scheduled to 

receive reports from the standing 

Committees and take action on 

Committee recommendations from 

10:45 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. The August 2, 

2014 meeting is scheduled to adjourn at 

12:00 p.m. 

A verbatim transcript of the meeting, 

consistent with the policy of section 5 

U.S.C. 552b(c) will be available to the 

public within 14 days of the meeting. 

Records are kept of all Board 

proceedings and are available for public 

inspection at the U.S. Department of 

Education, National Assessment 

Governing Board, Suite #825, 800 North 

Capitol Street NW., Washington, DC 

20002, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

Eastern Time, Monday through Friday. 

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Dated: July 1, 2014. 

Cornelia S. Orr, 

Executive Director, National Assessment 

Governing Board (NAGB), U.S. Department 

of Education. 

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