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DDRA Measure 2: The percentage of 

DDRA fellows who complete their 

degree in their program of study within 

four years of receipt of the fellowship. 

DDRA Measure 3: The percentage of 

DDRA fellows who found employment 

that utilized their language and area 

studies skills within eight years of 

receiving their award. 

DDRA Measure 4: Efficiency 

Measure—The cost per DDRA fellow 

who found employment that utilized 

their language and area studies skills 

within eight years. 

The information provided by grantees 

in their performance reports submitted 

via the International Resource 

Information System (IRIS) will be the 

source of data for these measures. 

Reporting screens for institutions and 

fellows may be viewed at http://

iris.ed.gov/iris/pdfs/DDRA_director.pdf, 

and http://iris.ed.gov/iris/pdfs/DDRA_

fellow.pdf. 

VII. Other Information 

Accessible Format: On request to the 

program contact person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, 

individuals with disabilities can obtain 

this document and a copy of the 

application package in an accessible 

format. The Department will provide the 

requestor with an accessible format that 

may include Rich Text Format (RTF) or 

text format (txt), a thumb drive, an MP3 

file, braille, large print, audiotape, or 

compact disc, or other accessible format. 

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Federal Register and the Code of Federal 

Regulations at www.govinfo.gov. At this site 

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Nasser H. Paydar, 

Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary 

Education. 

[FR Doc. 2024–25127 Filed 10–29–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

National Board for Education Sciences 

AGENCY: National Board for Education 

Sciences, Institute of Education 

Sciences (IES), U.S. Department of 

Education. 

ACTION: Notice of a meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the 

agenda, time, and instructions to access 

or participate in the open sessions of the 

National Board for Education Sciences 

(hereafter referred to as NBES or Board) 

meeting scheduled for November 15, 

2024. This notice provides information 

about the meeting to members of the 

public who may be interested in 

attending the meeting and/or how to 

provide written comment(s). 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be 

conducted virtually via Microsoft 

Teams. 

DATES: The NBES meeting will be held 

on Friday, November 15, 2024, from 

1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. (EST). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ellie 

Pelaez, DFO for NBES, U.S. Department 

of Education, IES: 550 12th Street SW, 

Office 4126–1, Washington, DC 20202, 

telephone: (202) 987–0359, email: 

ellie.pelaez@ed.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Statutory Authority and Function: 

The Board is authorized by section 116 

of the Education Sciences Reform Act of 

2002 (20 U.S.C. 9516). The Board is 

established as part of the U.S. 

Department of Education, IES, and shall, 

consistent with 20 U.S.C. 9514, 9515(b)– 

(c), and 9516 function as a board of 

directors for IES. The mission of IES is 

to provide national leadership in 

expanding fundamental knowledge and 

understanding of education from early 

childhood through postsecondary study, 

in order to provide parents, educators, 

students, researchers, policymakers, and 

the general public with reliable 

information about the condition and 

progress of education in the United 

States; educational practices that 

support learning and improve academic 

achievement and access to educational 

opportunities for all students; and the 

effectiveness of Federal and other 

education programs. 

The Board’s responsibilities are: (1) 

advise and consult with the Director of 

IES (Director) on the policies of IES; (2) 

consider and approve priorities 

proposed by the Director under 20 

U.S.C. 9515 to guide the work of IES; (3) 

transmit approved priorities to the 

appropriate congressional committee 

(20 U.S.C. 9515(b)); (4) ensure that the 

priorities of IES and the National 

Education Centers are consistent with 

the mission of IES (20 U.S.C. 9515(c)); 

(5) review and approve procedures for 

technical and scientific peer review of 

the activities of IES; (6) advise the 

Director on the establishment of 

activities to be supported by IES, 

including the general areas of research 

to be carried out by the National Center 

for Education Research (NCER) and the 

National Center for Special Education 

Research (NCSER) (20 U.S.C. 9567); (7) 

present to the Director such 

recommendations as it may find 

appropriate for (a) the strengthening of 

education research, and (b) the funding 

of IES; (8) advise the Director on the 

funding of applications for grants, 

contracts, and cooperative agreements 

for research, after the completion of peer 

review; (9) review and regularly 

evaluate the work of IES, to ensure that 

scientifically valid research, 

development, evaluation, and statistical 

analysis are consistent with the 

standards for such activities under this 

title; (10) advise the Director on 

ensuring that activities conducted or 

supported by IES are objective, secular, 

neutral, and non-ideological, and are 

free of partisan political influence and 

racial, cultural, gender, or regional bias; 

(11) solicit advice and information from 

those in the educational field, 

particularly practitioners and 

researchers, to recommend to the 

Director topics that require long-term, 

sustained, systematic, programmatic, 

and integrated research efforts, 

including knowledge utilization and 

wide dissemination of research, 

consistent with the priorities and 

mission of IES; (12) advise the Director 

on opportunities for the participation in, 

and the advancement of, women, 

minorities, and persons with disabilities 

in education research, statistics, and 

evaluation activities of IES; (13) 

recommend to the Director ways to 

enhance strategic partnerships and 

collaborative efforts among other 

Federal and State research agencies; (14) 

recommend to the Director individuals 

to serve as Commissioners of the 

National Education Centers; and (15) 

make recommendations to the President 

with respect to the appointment of the 

Director. Notice of this meeting is 

required by Section 1009(a)(2) of 5 

U.S.C. chapter 10 (commonly known as 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act). 

Meeting Agenda: The agenda for the 

meeting is as follows: 

1:30 p.m.–1:45 p.m. Call to order, 

remarks by the Chairwoman of the 

Board, member roll call, Board 

member approval of meeting 

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October 10, 2024, meeting, and 

member approval of meeting agenda 

(OPEN SESSION) 

1:45 p.m.–2:30 p.m. Members will 

engage in a discussion about member 

qualifications for the position of Vice 

Chair of the Board. These discussions 

will involve the disclosure of 

information of a personal nature 

where such disclosure would 

constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of personal privacy. As such, 

the discussions are protected by 

exemption 6 of the Government 

Sunshine Act, 5 U.S.C. 552b(c). 

(CLOSED SESSION) 

2:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m. Members will vote 

to elect a Vice Chair for the Board and 

to authorize submission of the annual 

report upon completion and review. 

The Board will engage in closing 

remarks and adjourn. (OPEN 

SESSION) 

Instructions for Accessing the 

Meeting: Members of the public 

interested in attending this meeting 

virtually may email the DFO listed in 

this notice no later than 11:59 p.m. 

Eastern Time (ET) on Wednesday, 

November 13, 2024. The DFO will 

provide a link to the virtual Microsoft 

Teams meeting. 

Public Comment: Members of the 

public interested in submitting written 

comments related to the work of NBES 

may do so by emailing their comments 

to the DFO. Written comments should 

pertain to the mission and function of 

NBES. All written comments will 

become part of the official record of the 

meeting. 

Reasonable Accommodations: The 

meeting is accessible to individuals 

with disabilities. If you will need an 

auxiliary aid or service for the meeting 

(e.g., interpreting service, assistive 

listening device, or materials in an 

alternate format), notify the DFO listed 

in this notice no later than Wednesday, 

November 13, 2024. 

Access to Records of the Meeting: The 

official transcript of this meeting will be 

available for public review on the IES 

website, https://ies.ed.gov/director/ 

board/index.asp, no later than 90 days 

after the meeting. Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 

1009(b), the public may also inspect 

NBES records at the U.S. Department of 

Education, IES, 550 12th Street SW, 

Washington, DC 20202, Monday–Friday, 

8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET. Please email 

ellie.pelaez@ed.gov to schedule an 

appointment. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

The official version of this document is 

the document published in the Federal 

Register. Free internet access to the 

official edition of the Federal Register 

and the Code of Federal Regulations is 

available via the Federal Digital System 

at: www.gpo.gov/fdsys. At this site you 

can view this document, as well as all 

other documents of this Department 

published in the Federal Register, in 

text or Adobe Portable Document 

Format (PDF). To use PDF, you must 

have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 

available free at the site. You also may 

access documents of the Department 

published in the Federal Register by 

using the article search feature at: 

www.federalregister.gov. Specifically, 

through the advanced search feature at 

this site, you can limit your search to 

documents published by the 

Department. 

Authority: Section 116 of the 

Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 

(20 U.S.C. 9516). 

Matthew Soldner, 

Acting Director, Institute of Education 

Sciences. 

[FR Doc. 2024–25232 Filed 10–29–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket No.: ED–2024–SCC–0100] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Comment Request; 

Student Aid Internet Gateway (SAIG) 

Enrollment Document 

AGENCY: Federal Student Aid (FSA), 

Department of Education (ED). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 

1995, the Department is proposing an 

extension of a currently approved 

information collection request (ICR). 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before 

November 29, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for proposed 

information collection requests should 

be submitted within 30 days of 

publication of this notice. Click on this 

link www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain to access the site. Find this 

information collection request (ICR) by 

selecting ‘‘Department of Education’’ 

under ‘‘Currently Under Review,’’ then 

check the ‘‘Only Show ICR for Public 

Comment’’ checkbox. Reginfo.gov 

provides two links to view documents 

related to this information collection 

request. Information collection forms 

and instructions may be found by 

clicking on the ‘‘View Information 

Collection (IC) List’’ link. Supporting 

statements and other supporting 

documentation may be found by 

clicking on the ‘‘View Supporting 

Statement and Other Documents’’ link. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

specific questions related to collection 

activities, please contact Beth 

Grebeldinger, (202) 570–8414. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department is especially interested in 

public comment addressing the 

following issues: (1) is this collection 

necessary to the proper functions of the 

Department; (2) will this information be 

processed and used in a timely manner; 

(3) is the estimate of burden accurate; 

(4) how might the Department enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (5) how 

might the Department minimize the 

burden of this collection on the 

respondents, including through the use 

of information technology. Please note 

that written comments received in 

response to this notice will be 

considered public records. 

Title of Collection: Student Aid 

Internet Gateway (SAIG) Enrollment 

Document. 

OMB Control Number: 1845–0002. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved ICR. 

Respondents/Affected Public: Private 

Sector; State, Local, and Tribal 

Governments. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 57,543. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 13,506. 

Abstract: This is a request for an 

extension of the currently approved 

information collection package, 1845– 

0002. In order to manage the Title IV, 

HEA assistance programs, authorized by 

the Higher Education Act of 1965, as 

amended (HEA); 20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq., 

eligible institutions and other partners 

must electronically transact business 

with Federal Student Aid (FSA) 

systems. This clearance allows 

institutions to request access to, 

designate personnel or make changes to 

current access to systems granted to the 

institutions and their personnel by FSA. 

No new data is being collected. No 

changes have been made to the forms 

approved on July 17, 2024. 

Dated: October 24, 2024. 

Kun Mullan, 

PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and 

Clearance, Governance and Strategy Division, 

Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of 

Planning, Evaluation and Policy 

Development. 

[FR Doc. 2024–25150 Filed 10–29–24; 8:45 am] 

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