Title 20, EducationRelease 119-110
§9541 Establishment
Title 20 › CHAPTER 76 — EDUCATION RESEARCH, STATISTICS, EVALUATION, INFORMATION, AND DISSEMINATION › SUBCHAPTER I — EDUCATION SCIENCES REFORM › Part C — National Center for Education Statistics › § 9541
Summary
Creates a National Center for Education Statistics inside the Institute to collect and study education data. The center must use the best research methods, report its findings quickly, and do its work in a neutral, nonreligious, nonpolitical way that is free from racial, cultural, gender, or regional bias and is useful to teachers, researchers, policymakers, and the public.
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Title 20, §9541
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(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 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
Sep 22, 2026
Release point: 119-110