Public Burden Statement

According to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, no persons are required to respond to a 

collection of information unless such collection displays a valid OMB control number. Public 

reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 14.0 hours per school 

survey response, and 4.2 hours per local educational agency survey response, including time for 

reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data 

needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. 

This collection is authorized under a number of federal statutes and regulations. Section 

203(c)(1) of the 1979 Department of Education Organization Act conveys to the Assistant 

Secretary for Civil Rights the authority to “collect or coordinate the collection of data necessary

to ensure compliance with civil rights laws within the jurisdiction of the Office for Civil Rights” 

(20 U.S.C. § 3413(c)(1)). The civil rights laws enforced by the OCR include: Title VI of the 

Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination based on race, color, and national 

origin; Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibits discrimination based on 

sex; and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which prohibits discrimination on the 

basis of disability. OCR’s implementing regulations for each of these statutes requires recipients 

of the Department’s federal financial assistance to submit to OCR “complete and accurate 

compliance reports at such times, and in such form and containing such information” as OCR 

“may determine to be necessary to enable [OCR] to ascertain whether the recipient has complied 

or is complying” with these laws and implementing regulations (34 CFR 100.6(b), 34 CFR 

106.71, and 34 CFR 104.61). In addition, pursuant to a delegation by the Attorney General of the 

United States, OCR shares in the enforcement of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act 

of 1990, which prohibits discrimination based on disability. Any data collection that OCR has 

determined to be necessary to ascertain or ensure compliance with these laws is mandatory. 

OCR also works with Department offices to help them effectively carry out programs of Federal 

financial assistance that the Secretary of Education is responsible for administering. See

generally, Sections 201, 202(g), 411(a), and 412 of the Department of Education Organization 

Act (20 U.S.C. §§ 3411, 3412(g), 3471(a), and 3472). OCR works with the Department’s Office 

of Elementary and Secondary Education, which is responsible for administering the Elementary

and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA). Section 9533 of the ESEA (20 U.S.C. § 7913) 

prohibits discrimination in the administration of the ESEA in violation of the Fifth or Fourteenth 

Amendments to the Constitution. In addition, Section 9534 of the ESEA (20 U.S.C. § 7914) 

prohibits discrimination in funded programs on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (except as 

otherwise permitted under Title IX), national origin, or disability. Thus, in addition to OCR's 

authority described above, the ESEA provides authority for the Department to mandate that 

LEAs respond to this data collection.

The obligation to respond to this collection is required to obtain or retain benefit. Send comments 

regarding the burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including 

suggestions for reducing this burden, to the U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Ave., 

SW, Washington, DC 20202-4536 or email ICDocketMgr@ed.gov and reference the OMB 

Control Number XXXX-XXXX. Note: Please do not return the completed Civil Right Data 

Collection survey to this address.