# 2025-20680: Education Department Reviews Prison Program Accreditation Paperwork Rules

2025-20680, Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Prison Education Program Accreditation Requirements, is a Federal Register notice from Education Department published 2025-11-24, effective Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before December 24, 2025. (as of 2026-06-08).

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## Facts
- Document number: 2025-20680
- Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Prison Education Program Accreditation Requirements
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Education Department
- Citation: 90 FR 52925
- Published: 2025-11-24
- Effective: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before December 24, 2025.
- Comments close: 2025-12-24
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

Education Department Reviews Prison Program Accreditation Paperwork Rules

## Summary

The Department of Education is updating how it collects information from private groups that run prison education programs to make sure they meet quality standards. This change affects about 21 programs and asks for feedback by December 24, 2025. The goal is to keep things clear, useful, and less time-consuming while making sure prison education stays top-notch.

## Abstract

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the Department is proposing a revision of a currently approved information collection request (ICR).

## Effects PRIA read

- Pell Grants for Incarcerated Students: benefit, high. The Department implements the law (Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, section 484(t) of the Higher Education Act) that formally establishes Federal Pell Grant eligibility for confined or incarcerated individuals who are enrolled in a Prison Education Program (PEP). If you are an incarcerated pe…
- Accreditor Site-Visit and Review Rules: cost, medium. The regulations require accrediting agencies to conduct a site visit no later than one year after an institution starts a PEP at its first two additional locations at correctional facilities. Accrediting agencies must also review the institution's methodology for determining that a PEP meets the sa…
- New Paperwork Burden on Private Respondents: cost, medium. The Department proposes a revision to the information collection for Prison Education Program accreditation requirements that lists the Respondents/Affected Public as the private sector. The notice estimates 21 annual responses and a total of 1,218 annual burden hours, and invites comments by Decem…

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## Sources
- [2025-20680 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/24/2025-20680/agency-information-collection-activities-submission-to-the-office-of-management-and-budget-for)
- [2025-20680 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-11-24/pdf/2025-20680.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-20680 (as of 2026-06-08).