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## Appendix **A NCES Authorization Legislation**  

# Education Sciences Reform Act (ESRA **2002), 20 U.S.C., Section 9543**

**Prepared by:**

**National Center for Education Statistics U.S. Department of Education**  **Washington, DC**

**May 16**  **, 2013**20 U.S.C.

United States Code, 2011 Edition Title 20

- EDUCATION CHAPTER 76

- EDUCATION RESEARCH, STATI STI CS, EVALUATION, INFORMATION, AND DI SSEMINATION SUBCHAPTER I

- EDUCATION SCI ENCES REFORM Part C

- National Center for Education Statistics Sec. 9543

- Duties From the U.S. Government Printing Office, www.gpo.gov 

### §9543. Duties **(a) General duties** The Statistics Center shall collect, report, anal yz e, and disseminate statistical data related to education in the United States and in other nations, including

— (1) collecting, acq

uiring, compiling (where appropriate, on a State

- by

- State basis), and disseminating full and complete statistics (disaggregated b y the population characteristics described in paragraph (3)) on the condition and progress of education, at the preschool, elem entary , secondary , postsecondary , and adult levels in the United States, including data on

— (A) State and local education reform activities; (B) State and local earl y childhood school readiness activities; (C) student achievement in, at a minimum, the core academic areas of reading, mathematics, and science at all levels of education; (D) secondary

school completions, dropouts, and adult literacy and reading skills; (E) access to, and opportunity for, postsecondary

education, including data on financial aid to postsecondary

students; (F) teaching, including

— (i) data on in

- service professional development, including a comparison of courses taken in the core academic areas of reading, mathematics, and science with courses in noncore academic areas, including technology

courses; and (ii) the percentage of teachers who are highl y qualified (as such term is defined in section 9101 of the Elementary

and Secondary

Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801)) in each State and, where feasible, in each local educational a gency and school; (G) instruction, the conditions of the education workplace, and the suppl y of, and demand for, teachers; (H) the incidence, frequency , seriousness, and nature of violence affecting students, school personnel, and other individuals participating in school activities, as well as other indices of school safet y, including information regarding

— (i) the relationship between victims and perpetrators; (ii) demographic characteristics of the victims and perpetrators; and (iii) the ty pe of weapons used in incidents, as classified in the Uniform Crime Reports of the Federal Bureau of Investigation;(I) the financing and management of education, including data on revenues and expenditures;

(J) the social and economic status of children, including thei r academic achievement; (K) the existence and use of educational technology and access to the Internet by students and teachers in elementary

schools and secondary

schools; (L) access to, and opportunity for, earl y childhood education; (M) the availabilit y of, and access to, before

- school and after

- school programs (including such programs during school recesses); (N) student participation in and completion of secondary and postsecondary

vocational and technical education programs by

specific program area; and (O) the existence and use of school libraries; (2) conducting and publishing reports on the meaning and significance o f the statistics described in paragraph (1); (3) collecting, anal yz ing, cross

- tabulating, and reporting, to the extent feasible, information by gender, race, ethnicity , socioeconomic status, limited English proficiency , mobility , disability , urban, rural, suburban districts, and other population characteristics, when such disaggregated information will facilitate educational and policy decisionmaking; (4) assisting public and private educational agencies, organizations, and institutions in improving and aut omating statistical and data collection activities, which may include assisting State educational agencies and local educational agencies with the disaggregation of data and with the development of longitudinal student data sy stems; (5) determining voluntary standards and guidelines to assist State educational agencies in developing statewide longitudinal data sy stems that link individual student data consistent with the requirements of the Elementary

and Secondary

Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6301 et s eq.), promote linkages across States, and protect student privacy consistent with section 9573 of this title, to improve student academic achievement and close achievement gaps; (6) acquiring and disseminating data on educational activities and student ach ievement (such as the Third International Math and Science Study) in the United States compared with foreign nations; (7) conducting longitudinal and special data collections necessary to report on the condition and progress of education; (8) assisting the Director in the preparation of a biennial report, as described in section 9519 of this title; and (9) determining, in consultation with the National Research Council of the National Academies, methodology

by which States may

accuratel y measure graduation rates (defined as the percentage of students who graduate from secondary school with a regular diploma in the standard number of y ears), school completion rates, and dropout rates. **(b) Training program** The Statistics Commissioner may establish a program to train employees of public and private educational agencies, organizations, and institutions in the use of standard statistical procedures and concepts, and may

establish a fellowship program to appoint such employees as temporary fellows at the Statistics Center, in order to assist the Statistics Center in carrying out its duties. (Pub. L . 107

–279, title I, §153, Nov. 5, 2002, 116 Stat. 1958.)**References in Text**

The Elementary

and Secondary

Education Act of 1965, referred to in subsec. (a)(5), is Pub. L . 8 9

– 10, Apr. 11, 1965, 79 Stat. 27, as amended, which is classified generall y to chapter 70 (§6301 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 6301 of this title and Tables. **Study by National Center for Education Statistics Respecting Condition of Education for Hispanic**  **Am ericans**  Pub. L . 98

–211, §24(b), Dec. 8, 1983, 97 Stat. 1419, provided that: “The National Center for Education Statistics shall not terminate the study of the condit ion of education for Hispanic Americans unless specificall y required or authorized to do so by law.”