5844 Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 11 / Friday, January 17, 2025 / Notices 

2. Risk Assessment and Specific 

Conditions: Before awarding grants 

under this competition, the Department 

conducts a review of the risks posed by 

applicants. The Secretary may impose 

specific conditions and, in appropriate 

circumstances, high-risk conditions on a 

grant if the applicant or grantee is not 

financially stable; has a history of 

unsatisfactory performance; has a 

financial or other management system 

that does not meet the standards in 2 

CFR part 200, subpart D; has not 

fulfilled the conditions of a prior grant; 

or is otherwise not responsible. 

3. Integrity and Performance System: 

If you are selected to receive an award 

that over the course of the project period 

may exceed the simplified acquisition 

threshold (currently $250,000), we must 

make a judgment about your integrity, 

business ethics, and record of 

performance under Federal awards— 

that is, the risk posed by you as an 

applicant—before we make an award. In 

determining risk, we review the 

information in the Federal Awardee 

Performance and Integrity Information 

System (FAPIIS)), accessible through the 

System for Award Management. You 

may review and comment on any 

information about yourself that a 

Federal agency previously entered and 

that is currently in FAPIIS. 

If the total value of your currently 

active grants, cooperative agreements, 

and procurement contracts from the 

Federal Government exceeds 

$10,000,000, the reporting requirements 

require you to report certain integrity 

information to FAPIIS semiannually. 

Please review the requirements in 2 CFR 

part 200, appendix XII, if this grant plus 

all the other Federal funds you receive 

exceed $10,000,000. 

V. Award Administration Information 

1. Award Notices: If your application 

is successful, we notify your U.S. 

Representative and U.S. Senators and 

send you a Grant Award Notification 

(GAN); or we may send you an email 

containing a link to access an electronic 

version of your GAN. We may notify 

you informally, also. If your application 

is not evaluated or not selected for 

funding, we notify you. 

The GAN identifies the terms and 

conditions and applicable regulations of 

your award. The GAN also incorporates 

your approved application as part of 

your binding commitments under the 

grant. 

2. Reporting: (a) If you apply for a 

grant under this competition, you must 

ensure that you have in place the 

necessary processes and systems to 

comply with the reporting requirements 

should you receive funding under the 

competition. This does not apply if you 

have an exception. 

(b) At the end of your project period, 

you must submit a final performance 

report, including financial information. 

If you receive a multiyear award, you 

must submit an annual performance 

report that provides the most current 

performance and financial expenditure 

information as directed by the Secretary. 

The Secretary may also require more 

frequent performance reports. For 

specific requirements on reporting, 

please go to www.ed.gov/fund/grant/ 

apply/appforms/appforms.html. 

(c) The Secretary may provide a 

grantee with additional funding for data 

collection analysis and reporting. In this 

case the Secretary establishes a data 

collection period. 

5. Continuation Awards: In making a 

continuation award, the Secretary 

considers, among other things: whether 

a grantee has made substantial progress 

in achieving the goals and objectives of 

the project; whether the grantee has 

expended funds in a manner that is 

consistent with its approved application 

and budget; and, if the Secretary has 

established performance measurement 

requirements, whether the grantee has 

made substantial progress in achieving 

the performance targets in the grantee’s 

approved application. 

In making a continuation award, the 

Secretary also considers whether the 

grantee is operating in compliance with 

the assurances in its approved 

application, including those applicable 

to Federal civil rights laws that prohibit 

discrimination in programs or activities 

receiving Federal financial assistance 

from the Department. 

VI. 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, 

compact disc, or other accessible format. 

Electronic Access to This Document: 

The official version of this document is 

the document published in the Federal 

Register. You may access the official 

edition of the Federal Register and the 

Code of Federal Regulations at http://

www.federalregister.gov/. At this site 

you can view this document, as well as 

all other Department documents 

published in the Federal Register, in 

text or Portable Document Format 

(PDF). To use PDF you must have 

Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is 

available free at the site. 

You may also access Department 

documents 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. 

Adam Schott, 

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, 

Delegated the Authority to Perform the 

Functions and Duties of the Assistant 

Secretary Office of Elementary and Secondary 

Education. 

[FR Doc. 2025–01238 Filed 1–16–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket No.: ED–2025–SCC–0006] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Comment Request; 

Program for International Student 

Assessment 2025 (PISA 2025) Main 

Study 

AGENCY: National Center for Education 

Statistics (NCES), Department of 

Education (ED). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 

1995, the Department is proposing a 

revision of a currently approved 

information collection request (ICR). 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before February 

18, 2025. 

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 


KHAMMOND on DSK9W7S144PROD with NOTICES
Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 11 / Friday, January 17, 2025 / Notices 5845 

activities, please contact Carrie Clarady, 

202–245–6347. 

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: Program for 

International Student Assessment 2025 

(PISA 2025) Main Study. 

OMB Control Number: 1850–0755. 

Type of Review: A revision of a 

currently approved ICR. 

Respondents/Affected Public: 

Individuals and Households. Total 

Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 59,087. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 19,041. 

Abstract: The Program for 

International Student Assessments 

(PISA) is an international assessment of 

15-year-olds which focuses on assessing 

students’ reading, mathematics, and 

science literacy. PISA was first 

administered in 2000 and is conducted 

every three years. The ninth cycle of the 

study, PISA 2025, is being administered 

at a time when interest is increasing, 

both worldwide and in the United 

States, in how well schools are 

preparing students to meet the 

challenges of the future, and how the 

students perform compared with their 

peers in other education systems of the 

world. Approximately 85 education 

systems, including the U.S., are 

expected to participate in 2025. The 

U.S. has participated in all previous 

cycles and is participating in 2025 in 

order to track trends and to compare the 

performance of U.S. students with that 

in other education systems. PISA 2025 

is sponsored by the Organization for 

Economic Cooperation and 

Development (OECD). In the U.S., PISA 

2025 is conducted by the National 

Center for Education Statistics (NCES) 

of the Institute of Education Sciences 

(IES), U.S. Department of Education. 

PISA is a collaboration among the 

participating countries, the OECD, and a 

group of international organizations 

each under contract to the OECD 

(hereafter referred to as the PISA 

International Consortium). 

In each administration of PISA, one of 

the subject areas (reading, mathematics, 

or science literacy) is the major domain 

and has the broadest content coverage, 

while the other two subjects are the 

minor domains. Science literacy will be 

the major domain in PISA 2025. Other 

areas may also be assessed, such as, in 

the case of PISA 2025, Learning in a 

Digital World (LDW), which will be an 

innovative domain in 2025. PISA 

assesses students’ knowledge and skills 

gained both in and out of school 

environments. The focus on the ‘‘yield’’ 

of education in and out of school makes 

it different from other international 

assessments such as the Trends in 

International Mathematics and Science 

Study (TIMSS) and the Progress in 

International Reading Literacy Study 

(PIRLS), which are closely tied to school 

curriculum frameworks and assess 

younger and grade-based populations. 

Like previous rounds of PISA in 2015, 

2018, and 2022, in PISA 2025 the entire 

assessment and the questionnaires will 

be administered on computer. In 

addition to the cognitive assessments, 

PISA 2025 will include questionnaires 

administered to school principals and 

assessed students. The school 

questionnaire will be delivered online. 

The school and student questionnaires 

are core components of PISA and as 

such are required for all participating 

countries. The teacher questionnaire, 

which is optional and was administered 

in previous rounds (2015 and 2018), 

will not be administered in 2025 

because the U.S. has deemed the 

resulting data inadequate for analyses 

due to the lack of weights for the teacher 

data. 

To prepare for the main study in 

2025, PISA countries conducted a field 

test in the spring of 2024, primarily to 

evaluate newly developed assessment 

and questionnaire items but also to test 

the assessment operations. The PISA 

2025 field test data collection occurred 

in the U.S.A. March-April 2024 and the 

main study data collection will take 

place September-November 2025. This 

submission requests approval for all 

final materials associated with 

recruitment and data collection 

activities related to the PISA 2025 main 

study and is accompanied by a notice 

published in the Federal Register 

allowing a 30-day public comment 

period on the final details of the PISA 

2025 main study data collection. In 

order to conduct the main study by 

March 2025, we are submitting this 30D 

revision with the final main study 

student video (Appendix A–2) and final 

school and student questionnaires 

(Appendix C–2), as well as refined 

details about changes to the design and 

procedures for the main study (Parts A 

& B). 

Dated: January 14, 2025. 

Stephanie Valentine, 

PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and 

Clearance, Governance and Strategy Division, 

Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of 

Planning, Evaluation and Policy 

Development. 

[FR Doc. 2025–01202 Filed 1–16–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Applications for New Awards; 

Supporting Effective Educator 

Development Program 

AGENCY: Office of Elementary and 

Secondary Education, Department of 

Education. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Education 

(Department) is issuing a notice inviting 

applications for fiscal year (FY) 2025 for 

the Supporting Effective Educator 

Development (SEED) program. 

DATES: 

Applications Available: January 17, 

2025. 

Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply: 

Applicants are strongly encouraged, but 

not required, to submit a notice of intent 

to apply by February 18, 2025. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: March 18, 2025. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: May 19, 2025. 

Pre-Application Webinars: The Office 

of Elementary and Secondary Education 

intends to conduct informational 

webinars designed to provide technical 

assistance to interested applicants for 

grants under the Academies Program. 

These informational webinars occur 

approximately 2 weeks after the 

publication of this notice in the Federal 

Register at https://www.ed.gov/grantsand-programs/teacher-prep/supportingeffective-educator-development-grantprogram#Applicant-Info. 

ADDRESSES: For the addresses for 

obtaining and submitting an 

application, please refer to our Common 

Instructions for Applicants to 

Department of Education Discretionary 

Grant Programs, published in the 

Federal Register on December 23, 2024 

(89 FR 104528) and available at 

www.federalregister.gov/documents/ 

2024/12/23/2024-30488/commoninstructions-for-applicants-todepartment-of-education-discretionarygrant-programs. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Orman Feres, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, 


KHAMMOND on DSK9W7S144PROD with NOTICES