20 U.S.C. § 9516 — National Board for Education Sciences
submitted 24 years ago by Pub. L. 107-279 to r/title-20-EDUCATION · 1,526 words · no verdicts yet
This section creates the National Board for Education Sciences and sets its advisory, oversight, membership, meeting, committee, reporting, and staffing rules.
(a) The Institute* must have the National Board* for Education Sciences. (b) The Board must advise the Director*; approve priorities; review peer-review procedures; advise on Institute activities and National Center for Education Research areas; recommend strengthening research and funding; advise on grant and contract funding after peer review; regularly evaluate whether Institute work meets valid-research standards; advise on objectivity and freedom from specified bias; gather education-field advice and recommend long-term research topics; advise on participation by women, minorities, and people with disabilities; recommend partnerships; and recommend Center Commissioners. (c)(1) The Board has 15 voting members appointed by the President. (2) The President must seek advice from the National Academy of Sciences, National Science Board, and National Science Advisor. (3) Nonvoting members are the Institute Director, each Center Commissioner, the NICHD Director, Census Director, Labor Statistics Commissioner, and NSF Director. (4)(A) Appointed members must be highly qualified to assess education research, statistics, evaluation, or development* and include at least eight researchers in statistics, evaluation, social or physical or biological sciences, plus people knowledgeable about United States education needs, including the listed educators, officials, experts, and business or industry representatives. (B) Terms are four years; initial terms are randomly staggered as five members for four years, five for three, and five for two; no more than two consecutive terms. (C) A vacancy appointee serves only the remainder. (D) A voting member is a special Government employee under chapter 131 of title 5. (5) The Board elects its chair. (6) Members serve without pay; Federal officers and employees get no extra pay, allowances, or benefits. (7) Members receive authorized travel expenses and per diem under title 5. (8) The Board has a Board-appointed Executive Director; may use staff assigned by the Director after consultation; may use Federal facilities and request personnel details; may contract; and may obtain necessary information as law permits. (9) It meets at least three times yearly, plus meetings called by the chair or written request of six voting members, and is subject to the Government in the Sunshine Act. (10) A majority of serving voting members is a quorum. (d)(1) The Board may establish a standing committee for each Center to advise the Director and relevant Commissioner. (2) A majority must be voting Board members with needed expertise. Committees may also include qualified outside research experts, ex officio Board members, and knowledgeable policymakers and practitioners, as specified. (3) Each committee may review and comment on Center grants and contracts; must submit an annual Center-operations evaluation; review and comment on each fiscal year’s activity plan; and report periodically to the Board. (e) By July 1 each year, the Board must report to the Director, Secretary*, and proper congressional committees on Institute effectiveness, especially valid research, unbiased evaluations, accurate statistics, and translating research into practice. (f) The Board must submit recommendations for improving the Institute and an interim report within three years after November 5, 2002, and final report within five years.
The Institute* shall have a board* of directors, which shall be known as the National Board for Education Sciences.
The duties of the Board shall be the following:
To advise and consult with the Director* on the policies of the Institute.
To consider and approve priorities proposed by the Director under section 9515 of this title to guide the work of the Institute.
To review and approve procedures for technical and scientific peer review of the activities of the Institute.
To advise the Director on the establishment of activities to be supported by the Institute, including the general areas of research to be carried out by the National Center for Education Research.
To present to the Director such recommendations as it may find appropriate for—
the strengthening of education research; and
the funding of the Institute.
To advise the Director on the funding of applications for grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements for research, after the completion of peer review.
To review and regularly evaluate the work of the Institute, to ensure that scientifically valid research*, development*, evaluation, and statistical analysis are consistent with the standards for such activities under this subchapter.
To advise the Director on ensuring that activities conducted or supported by the Institute are objective, secular, neutral, and nonideological and are free of partisan political influence and racial, cultural, gender, or regional bias.
To 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 the Institute.
To 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 the Institute.
To recommend to the Director ways to enhance strategic partnerships and collaborative efforts among other Federal and State* research agencies.
To recommend to the Director individuals to serve as Commissioners of the National Education Centers.
The Board shall have 15 voting members appointed by the President.
The President shall solicit advice regarding individuals to serve on the Board from the National Academy of Sciences, the National Science Board, and the National Science Advisor.
The Board shall have the following nonvoting ex officio members:
The Director of the Institute of Education Sciences.
Each of the Commissioners of the National Education Centers.
The Director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
The Director of the Census.
The Commissioner of Labor Statistics.
The Director of the National Science Foundation.
Members appointed under paragraph (1) shall be highly qualified to appraise education research, statistics, evaluations, or development, and shall include the following individuals:
Not fewer than 8 researchers in the field of statistics, evaluation, social sciences, or physical and biological sciences, which may include those researchers recommended by the National Academy of Sciences.
Individuals who are knowledgeable about the educational needs of the United States, who may include school-based professional educators, parents (including parents with experience in promoting parental involvement in education), Chief State School Officers, State postsecondary education executives, presidents of institutions of higher education, local educational agency* superintendents, early childhood experts, special education experts, principals, members of State or local boards of education or Bureau*-funded school boards, and individuals from business and industry with experience in promoting private sector involvement in education.
Each member appointed under paragraph (1) shall serve for a term of 4 years, except that—
the terms of the initial members appointed under such paragraph shall (as determined by a random selection process at the time of appointment) be for staggered terms of—
4 years for each of 5 members;
3 years for each of 5 members; and
2 years for each of 5 members; and
no member appointed under such paragraph shall serve for more than 2 consecutive terms.
Any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring before the expiration of the term for which the member’s predecessor was appointed shall be appointed only for the remainder of that term.
A voting member of the Board shall be considered a special Government employee for the purposes of chapter 131 of title 5.
The Board shall elect a chair from among the members of the Board.
Members of the Board shall serve without pay for such service. Members of the Board who are officers or employees of the United States may not receive additional pay, allowances, or benefits by reason of their service on the Board.
The members of the Board shall receive travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, in accordance with subchapter I of chapter 57 of title 5.
The Board shall have an Executive Director who shall be appointed by the Board.
The Board shall utilize such additional staff as may be appointed or assigned by the Director, in consultation with the Chair and the Executive Director.
The Board may use the services and facilities of any department* or agency of the Federal Government. Upon the request of the Board, the head of any Federal department or agency may detail any of the personnel of that department or agency to the Board to assist the Board in carrying out this Act.
The Board may enter into contracts or make other arrangements as may be necessary to carry out its functions.
The Board may, to the extent otherwise permitted by law, obtain directly from any executive department or agency of the Federal Government such information as the Board determines necessary to carry out its functions.
The Board shall meet not less than 3 times each year. The Board shall hold additional meetings at the call of the Chair or upon the written request of not less than 6 voting members of the Board. Meetings of the Board are subject to section 552b of title 5 (commonly referred to as the Government in the Sunshine Act).
A majority of the voting members of the Board serving at the time of the meeting shall constitute a quorum.
The Board may establish standing committees—
that will each serve 1 of the National Education Centers; and
to advise, consult with, and make recommendations to the Director and the Commissioner of the appropriate National Education Center.
A majority of the members of each standing committee shall be voting members of the Board whose expertise is needed for the functioning of the committee. In addition, the membership of each standing committee may include, as appropriate—
experts and scientists in research, statistics, evaluation, or development who are recognized in their discipline as highly qualified to represent such discipline and who are not members of the Board, but who may have been recommended by the Commissioner of the appropriate National Education Center and approved by the Board;
ex officio members of the Board; and
policymakers and expert practitioners with knowledge of, and experience using, the results of research, evaluation, and statistics who are not members of the Board, but who may have been recommended by the Commissioner of the appropriate National Education Center and approved by the Board.
Each standing committee shall—
review and comment, at the discretion of the Board or the standing committee, on any grant, contract, or cooperative agreement entered into (or proposed to be entered into) by the applicable National Education Center;
prepare for, and submit to, the Board an annual evaluation of the operations of the applicable National Education Center;
review and comment on the relevant plan for activities to be undertaken by the applicable National Education Center for each fiscal year; and
report periodically to the Board regarding the activities of the committee and the applicable National Education Center.
The Board shall submit to the Director, the Secretary*, and the appropriate congressional committees, not later than July 1 of each year, a report that assesses the effectiveness of the Institute in carrying out its priorities and mission, especially as such priorities and mission relate to carrying out scientifically valid research, conducting unbiased evaluations, collecting and reporting accurate education statistics, and translating research into practice.
The Board shall submit to the Director, the Secretary, and the appropriate congressional committees a report that includes any recommendations regarding any actions that may be taken to enhance the ability of the Institute to carry out its priorities and mission. The Board shall submit an interim report not later than 3 years after November 5, 2002, and a final report not later than 5 years after such date.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 107–279, title I, § 116, Nov. 5, 2002, 116 Stat. 1948; Pub. L. 108–446, title II, §§ 201(b)(2)(D), 202, Dec. 3, 2004, 118 Stat. 2802; Pub. L. 110–154, § 1(d), Dec. 21, 2007, 121 Stat. 1828; Pub. L. 112–166, § 2(cc), Aug. 10, 2012, 126 Stat. 1290; Pub. L. 117–286, § 4(c)(28), Dec. 27, 2022, 136 Stat. 4357.)
- 2002Enacted · Pub. L. 107-279 · 116 Stat. 1948
- 2004Amended · Pub. L. 108-446 · 118 Stat. 2802
- 2007Amended · Pub. L. 110-154 · 121 Stat. 1828
- 2012Amended · Pub. L. 112-166 · 126 Stat. 1290
- 2022Amended · Pub. L. 117-286 · 136 Stat. 4357
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 107-279 on 2002-11-05.
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