Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 90 / Tuesday, May 9, 2000 / Notices 26823

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Dated: May 3, 2000.

Judith E. Heumann,

Assistant Secretary for Special Education and

Rehabilitative Services.

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

National Center for Education

Statistics (NCES); Notice of Meeting of

the Advisory Council on Education

Statistics

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Education.

ACTION: Notice of meeting of the

Advisory Council on Education

Statistics.

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the

schedule and proposed agenda of a

forthcoming meeting of the Advisory

Council on Education Statistics (ACES).

Notice of this meeting is required under

Section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory

Committee Act. This document is

intended to notify the general public of

their opportunity to attend.

DATES: May 18–19, 2000.

TIMES: May 18, 2000—Full Council, 9:00

a.m.–1 p.m.; Statistics Committee,

Policy Committee, and Management

Committee, 1 p.m.–5 p.m. May 19,

2000—Statistics Committee, Policy

Committee, and Management

Committee, 8:30 a.m.–12 noon; Full

Council, 12 noon—2:30 p.m.

LOCATION: The Wyndam Bristol Hotel,

2400 Pennsylvania Avenue NW,

Washington, DC 20006.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Audrey Pendleton, National Center for

Education Statistics, 1990 K Street NW,

Room 9115, Washington, DC 20006.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Advisory Council on Education

Statistics (ACES) is established under

Section 46(c)(1) of the Education

Amendments of 1974, Public Law 93–

380. The Council is established to

review general policies for the operation

of the National Center for Education

Statistics (NCS) in the Office of

Educational Research and Improvement

(OERI) and is responsible for advising

on standards to ensure that statistics

and analyses disseminated by NCES are

of high quality and are not subject to

political influence. In addition, ACES is

required to advise the Commissioner of

NCES and the National Assessment

Governing Board on technical and

statistical matters related to the National

Assessment of Educational Progress

(NAEP). This meeting of the Council is

open to the public. Individuals who will

need accommodations for a disability in

order to attend the meeting (i.e.

interpreting services, assistive listening

devices, materials in alternative format)

should notify Audrey Pendleton at 202

502–7300 by no later than May 10, 2000.

We will attempt to meet requests after

this date, but cannot guarantee

availability of the requested

accommodation. The meeting site is

accessible to individuals with

disabilities.

The proposed agenda includes the

following:

• New member swearing-in;

• A status report from the NCES

Commissioner on major Center initiatives;

including the Department of Education’s

language for the reauthorization of NCES and

ACES;

• The role of ACES in producing an annual

report on the quality and usefulness of data

collected and reported by the Center;

• Using results from the NCES Customer

Service Surveys;

Individual meetings of the three ACES

Committees will focus on specific topics:

• The agenda for the Statistics Committee

includes a discussion of revision of NCES

statistical standards, long-term trends in the

NAEP writing assessment, and a proposed

Recognition and Reward program using

NAEP state results.

• The agenda for the Policy Committee

includes discussion of the Early Childhood

Longitudinal Survey Birth Cohort and use of

the results of the NCES Customer Service

Survey.

• The agenda for the Management

Committee will also include use of the result

of the NCES Customer Service Survey in

addition to general management issues.

Records are kept of all Council

proceedings and are available for public

inspection at the Office of the Executive

Director, Advisory Council on

Education Statistics, National Center for

Education Statistics, 1990 K Street NW,

Room 9100, Washington, DC 20006.

C. Kent McGuire,

Assistant Secretary for Educational Research

and Improvement.

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Arbitration Panel Decision Under the

Randolph-Sheppard Act

AGENCY: Department of Education.

ACTION: Notice of Arbitration Panel

Decision Under the Randolph-Sheppard

Act.

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that on

August 29, 1999, an arbitration panel

rendered a decision in the matter of

Michael L. Adams v. Michigan

Commission for the Blind (Docket No. RS/97–20). This panel was convened by

the U.S. Department of Education

pursuant to 20 U.S.C. 107d-1(a) upon

receipt of a complaint filed by

petitioner, Michael L. Adams.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A

copy of the full text of the arbitration

panel decision may be obtained from

George F. Arsnow, U.S. Department of

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW.,

room 3230, Mary E. Switzer Building,

Washington DC 20202–2738.

Telephone: (202) 205–9317. If you use a

telecommunications device for the deaf

(TDD), you may call the TDD number at

(202) 205–8298.

Individuals with disabilities may

obtain this document in an alternate

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

audiotape, or computer diskette) on

request to the contact person listed in

the preceding paragraph.

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