§9546 Dissemination

Summary

The Statistics Center must give out transcripts, copies of tables, and special statistical studies to state and local officials, schools, colleges, public and private groups, and people. State education agencies, local school districts, and colleges can ask the Center to make particular reports or surveys to help them. The Center must also make special studies when congressional committees ask. It can do joint projects with nonprofit groups or other agencies and the Secretary will decide how to share the costs. The Center may charge the actual or estimated cost for its work, except for work done for Congress or for joint projects. Money paid to the Center can be used to pay for the work, to repay prior government funding, or to refund extra payments. The Center must work with other federal agencies under section 9573 and must give interested parties (including parents and agencies) direct access to data, in the best form available, including electronic access when possible, under terms the Center sets.