Title 20 — EducationRelease 119-73

§9541 Establishment

Title 20 › Chapter CHAPTER 76— - EDUCATION RESEARCH, STATISTICS, EVALUATION, INFORMATION, AND DISSEMINATION › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - EDUCATION SCIENCES REFORM › Part Part C— - National Center for Education Statistics › § 9541

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Creates a National Center for Education Statistics inside the Institute. Its job is to collect, study, and report education data and statistics using the highest-quality methods and to do so on a timely basis. The work must be objective, nonreligious, neutral, not political, and free from racial, cultural, gender, or regional bias, and it must be useful to educators, researchers, policymakers, and the public.

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Title 20, §9541

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

(b)The mission of the Statistics Center shall 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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20 U.S.C. § 9541

Title 20 — Education

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73