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GAO-13-596R 1 (2013-06-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaahbv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Washington, DC 20548 June 28, 2013 The Honorable John Kline Chairman Committee on Education and the Workforce House of Representatives The Honorable Richard Hanna House of Representatives Status of the Department of Education's Inventory of Its Data Collections The Department of Education (Education) administers numerous data collections to a variety of entities. Some of these collections are statistical in nature and are primarily used for research purposes and others are associated with grant program administration or program monitoring. Recipients of federal funds, such as states, school districts, and postsecondary institutions, must comply with federal requirements, many of which involve collecting and reporting data to Education for several purposes, including accountability, monitoring, and compliance with civil rights laws. Education's data collections generally must be approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in accordance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980, as amended.1 In 2012, we reported that states and school districts cited data collection and reporting among the most burdensome elementary and secondary education program requirements, due in part to being unnecessarily duplicative.2 Accordingly, you asked us to determine the breadth of Education's data collection efforts, including identifying the individual data elements collected from respondents. Our initial work shows that Education is compiling an inventory of its data collections; thus, this report addresses the following questions: 1. What information will the inventory of Education's data collections contain and when will the inventory be completed? 2. What process is Education using to catalog its data collections, and to what extent does that process include internal controls to ensure the accuracy of the information collected? 3. What are Education's plans to make its data collection inventory publicly available? 1Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980, Pub. L. No. 96-511, 94 Stat. 2812 (codified as amended at 44 U.S.C. §§ 3501- 3521). In this report, we use the term data collection to mean a collection of information as defined by the Paperwork Reduction Act. 2See GAO, K-12 Education: Selected States and School Districts Cited Numerous Federal Requirements As Burdensome, While Recognizing Some Benefits, GAO 12-672 (Washington, D.C.: June 27, 2012).

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