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OMB Control No: 1810-0682	ICR Reference No: 201502-1810-001
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 201409-1810-001
Agency/Subagency: ED/OESE	Agency Tracking No: 1067.14
Title: Elementary and Secondary Improvement Formula Grants
Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved without change	Conclusion Date: 03/11/2015
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA)	Date Received in OIRA: 02/09/2015
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	03/31/2018	36 Months From Approved	11/30/2016
Responses	3,102	0	3,102
Time Burden (Hours)	233,440	0	229,800
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Abstract: The U.S. Secretary of Education has published revised final requirements for the School Improvement Grants (SIG) program in the Federal Register on February 9, 2015, authorized under section 1003(g) of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended (ESEA), to implement language in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014, that allows local educational agencies (LEAs) to implement additional interventions, provides flexibility for rural LEAs, and extends the grant period from three to five years. Additionally, the final requirements make changes that reflect lessons learned from four years of SIG implementation. The Secretary published proposed requirements for public comment on September 8, 2014 and responded to comments as part of these final requirements. These final requirements contain information collection activities covered under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) and cause revisions to the currently approved Office of Management and Budget (OMB) data collection under control 1810-0682. The activities that are currently approved by OMB consist of: (1) the state educational agency (SEAs') preparation of applications to submit to the Department to apply for SIG funds and the SEAs' posting of the LEAs' applications on the SEAs' Web sites; (2) the reporting of specific school-level data on the use of SIG funds and specific interventions implemented in LEAs receiving SIG funds that the Department currently collects through EDFacts (OMB Control 1875-0240); and (3) the application an LEA must submit to apply to its SEA for SIG funds. The following is a summary of how the final requirements would change these activities and the effect they would have on the total annual approved burden. The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014, included changes to the SIG requirements that require changes to the current approved data collection. These changes are addressed in these final requirements and allow LEAs to implement additional interventions, provide flexibility for rural LEAs, and extend the grant period from three to five years. The final requirements also reflect lessons learned from four years of SIG implementation. Additionally, the final requirements reflect the fact that, since the original requirements for the SIG program were published in 2010, 44 SEAs received approval to implement ESEA flexibility, pursuant to which they no longer identify Title I schools for improvement, corrective action, or restructuring. To reflect this change, the final requirements make an LEA with priority schools, which are generally a State's lowest-achieving Title I schools, and focus schools, which are generally the schools within a State with the largest achievement gaps, eligible to receive SIG funds.

Authorizing Statute(s): PL: Pub.L. 107 - 110 1003(g)
PL: Pub.L. 111 - 5 Title VIII

Citations for New Statutory Requirements: PL: Pub.L. 113 - 76 1 Name of Law: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014

Associated Rulemaking Information
RIN:	Stage of Rulemaking:	Federal Register Citation:	Date:
1810-AB22	Final or interim final rulemaking	80 FR 7223	02/09/2015

Federal Register Notices & Comments
60-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	80 FR 7223	02/09/2015
30-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	80 FR 7223	02/09/2015
Did the Agency receive public comments on this ICR? No

Number of Information Collection (IC) in this ICR: 1

IC Title	Form No.	Form Name
Elementary and Secondary Improvement Formula Grants	NA	SIG Application

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved	Change Due to New Statute
Annual Number of Responses	3,102	3,102	0
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	233,440	229,800	3,640
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Increase Due to:

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Reduction Due to:

Short Statement: The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014 included changes to the SIG requirements that require changes to the current approved data collection. These changes are addressed in the NPR and NFR and allow LEAs to implement additional interventions, provide flexibility for rural LEAs, and extend the grant period from three to five years. The amendments to the requirements also reflect lessons learned from four years of SIG implementation. Additionally, the amendments reflect the fact that, since the final requirements for the SIG program were published in 2010, 44 SEAs received approval to implement ESEA flexibility, pursuant to which they no longer identify Title I schools for improvement, corrective action, or restructuring. To reflect this change, the amended requirements make an LEA with priority schools, which are generally a State's lowest-achieving Title I schools, and focus schools, which are generally the schools within a State with the largest achievement gaps, eligible to receive SIG funds. Under proposed requirement section II.B.1(b), each SEA may submit, as part of the required application it submits to the Department to receive SIG funds, one State-determined intervention model for review and approval by the Secretary. These proposed requirements would require an SEA to submit a proposed State-determined intervention model as part of its application, if a State choses to implement this model. The proposed requirements also make a number of clarifications to the reporting requirements. First, proposed requirement section III.A.3 eliminates the metric for "Truants" and replaces it with "Chronic absenteeism rates." Second, proposed requirement III.A clarifies the correct source for each of the required metrics and removes references to the SFSF previously approved under OMB data collection 1810-0695. Finally, proposed requirements in section III.A.3 would require an SEA to report, with respect to schools receiving SIG awards, the number of schools implementing models with a modified element pursuant to proposed section I.B.6 and which models are being implemented in those schools. There is a program change increase of +3,640 annual burden hours due to new statutory requirements.

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $253,910

Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? No

Is the Supporting Statement intended to be a Privacy Impact Assessment required by the E-Government Act of 2002? No

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? No

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? No

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? Yes

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? Uncollected

Agency Contact: Kimberly Light 202 260-1749 kimberly.light@ed.gov

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