 
                CHAPTER 71--NATIONAL EDUCATION STATISTICS
 
Sec. 9003. Duties of Center


(a) Duties

    The duties of the Center are to collect, analyze, and disseminate 
statistics and other information related to education in the United 
States and in other nations, including--
        (1) collecting, acquiring, compiling (where appropriate, on a 
    State by State basis), and disseminating full and complete 
    statistics on the condition and progress of education, at the 
    preschool, elementary, secondary, and postsecondary levels in the 
    United States, including data on--
            (A) State and local education reform activities;
            (B) student achievement at all levels of education;
            (C) secondary school completions, dropouts, and adult 
        literacy;
            (D) educational access to and opportunity for postsecondary 
        education, including data on financial aid to postsecondary 
        students;
            (E) teaching, including data on course-taking, instruction, 
        the conditions of the education workplace, and the supply of, 
        and demand for, teachers, which may include data on the 
        proportions of women and men, cross-tabulated by race or 
        ethnicity, teaching in subjects in which such individuals have 
        been historically underrepresented;
            (F) the learning and teaching environment, including data on 
        libraries;
            (G) 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 safety;
            (H) the financing and management of education, including 
        data on revenues and expenditures; and
            (I) the social and economic status of children;

        (2) conducting and publishing reports and analyses of the 
    meaning and significance of such statistics;
        (3) conducting longitudinal studies, as well as regular and 
    special surveys and data collections, necessary to report on the 
    condition and progress of education;
        (4) collecting, analyzing, cross-tabulating, and reporting, to 
    the extent feasible, so as to provide information by gender, race, 
    socioeconomic status, limited-English proficiency, and other 
    population characteristics when such disaggregated information would 
    facilitate educational and policy decisionmaking;
        (5) assisting public and private educational agencies, 
    organizations, and institutions in improving and automating 
    statistical and data collection activities; and
        (6) acquiring and disseminating data on educational activities 
    and student achievement in the United States compared with foreign 
    nations.

(b) Training program

    The Commissioner may establish a program to train employees of 
public and private educational agencies, organizations, and institutions 
in the use of the Center's standard statistical procedures and concepts 
and may establish a fellows program to appoint such employees as 
temporary fellows at the Center in order to assist the Center in 
carrying out its duties.

(Pub. L. 103-382, title IV, Sec. 404, Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 4031.)


        National Survey of Factors Associated With Participation

    Pub. L. 102-325, title XIV, Sec. 1406, July 22, 1992, 106 Stat. 818, 
required Secretary of Education, acting through National Center for 
Educational Statistics, to conduct special purpose survey on biennial 
basis of factors associated with participation of low-income, 
disadvantaged, non-English language background, disabled, and minority 
students in various types of postsecondary education, to conduct certain 
consultations, to report relevant data and conclusions from the survey 
to Congress on annual basis, to submit a plan to ensure participation of 
at-risk students in higher education, and to make an interagency 
agreement with National Science Foundation relating to existing panel 
study of income dynamics, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 105-332, 
Sec. 6(b)(2), Oct. 31, 1998, 112 Stat. 3128.


                           Data Study Required

    Pub. L. 99-498, title XIII, Sec. 1303, Oct. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 
1580, as amended by Pub. L. 100-50, Sec. 23(3), June 3, 1987, 101 Stat. 
362, required Secretary of Education, through Office of Educational 
Research and Improvement, to conduct studies of escalating cost of 
higher education, student aid recipients, current and future supply and 
demand of teachers, and certain financial aid formulas for students in 
postsecondary education institutions and to submit reports to Congress 
not later than Sept. 30, 1990, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 105-332, 
Sec. 6(a), Oct. 31, 1998, 112 Stat. 3127.


 Study by National Center for Education Statistics Respecting Condition 
                   of Education for Hispanic Americans

    Pub. L. 98-211, Sec. 24(b), Dec. 8, 1983, 97 Stat. 1419, provided 
that: ``The National Center for Education Statistics shall not terminate 
the study of the condition of education for Hispanic Americans unless 
specifically required or authorized to do so by law.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1232j of this title.
