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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 156 / Tuesday, August 17, 2021 / Notices
supplemental ARP a4 awards. The Department will accept complete applications submitted at any time prior to the deadline on September 10, 2021.
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Program Authority: Section 2003 of the ARP and section 314 of the CRRSAA.
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Annmarie Weisman, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Planning and Innovation, Office of Postsecondary Education.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
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Request for Information on the Department of Educations Fiscal Year FY 20222026 Learning Agenda Institute of Education Sciences, Department of Education.
ACTION: Request for information.
AGENCY:

The Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 and implementing guidance require Federal agencies to develop an evidence-building plan, referred to as a Learning Agenda, to identify and address questions relevant to agency programs, policies, and regulations.
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RFI, we seek public input to help us identify priority questions to guide our evidence-building activities.
DATES: We must receive your comments by September 16, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Submit your response to this RFI through the Federal eRulemaking Portal. We will not accept submissions by postal mail, commercial mail, hand delivery, fax, or email. To ensure that we do not receive duplicate copies, please submit your comments only once. In addition, please include the Docket ID at the top of your comments.
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to www.regulations.gov to submit your comments electronically. Information on using Regulations.gov, including instructions for accessing agency documents, submitting comments, and viewing the docket, is available on the site under the FAQ tab.
Privacy Note: The Departments policy for comments received from members of the public is to make these submissions available for public viewing in their entirety on the Federal eRulemaking Portal at www.regulations.gov. Therefore, commenters should be careful to include in their comments only information that they wish to make publicly available. We encourage, but do not require, that each respondent include his or her name, title, institution or affiliation, and the name, title, mailing and email addresses, and telephone number of a contact person for his or her institution or affiliation, if any.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Matthew Soldner, Commissioner, National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance &
Evaluation Officer, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, Room 4160, Potomac Center Plaza, Washington, DC 202027240.
Telephone: 202 2458385. Email:
Matthew.Soldner@ed.gov.
If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf TDD or a text telephone TTY, call the Federal Relay Service FRS, toll-free, at 1800877
8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background The Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 1 requires Federal agencies to develop a systematic plan for identifying and addressing policy questions relevant to 1 www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW115publ435/html/PLAW-115publ435.htm.

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the programs, policies, and regulations of the agency. 2 This plan, referred to as a Learning Agenda, offers the opportunity for the Department to develop evidence in service of achieving its strategic goals and objectives, answering important shortand longterm strategic and operational questions.
We seek public comments to inform the development of our FY 20222026
Learning Agenda.
This is a request for information only.
This RFI is not a request for proposals RFP or a promise to issue an RFP or a notice inviting applications. This RFI
does not commit the Department to contract for any supply or service whatsoever. Further, we are not seeking proposals and will not accept unsolicited proposals. The Department will not pay for any information or administrative costs that you may incur in responding to this RFI. The documents and information submitted in response to this RFI will not be returned.
We will review every comment, and, as described above, electronic comments in response to this RFI will be publicly available on the Federal eRulemaking Portal at www.regulations.gov. Please note that IES will not directly respond to comments.
Solicitation of Comments The Department intends to focus its FY 20222026 evidence-building activities on six areas that are related to achieving the Departments education mission and are consistent with the Secretarys vision for American education.3 We list each area below and invite stakeholders who are interested in the work of the Department for their input on 1 the most important questions about which evidence should be built in each area; 2 specific evidence-building activities that should be undertaken, either by the Department or by others with the capacity to do so, to answer those questions; and 3 areas not listed below to which the Department should pay particular attention as it refines its FY 20222026
Learning Agenda during this and future fiscal years. These six areas of the Learning Agenda are 1. Addressing the impact of COVID
19 on students, schools and institutions of higher education, educators, and their communities;
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