20 U.S.C. § 9541 — Establishment

(a) Establishment There is established in the Institute^* a National Center for Education Statistics (in this part referred to as the “Statistics Center”).

(b) Mission The mission of the Statistics Center must be:
(1) to collect and analyze education information and statistics in a manner that meets the highest methodological standards;
(2) to report education information and statistics in a timely manner; and
(3) to collect, analyze, and report education information and statistics in a manner that:
(A) is objective, secular, neutral, and nonideological and is free of partisan political influence and racial, cultural, gender, or regional bias; and
(B) is relevant and useful to practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and the public.

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