[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 53 (Friday, March 18, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-6432]
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[Federal Register: March 18, 1994]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
National Assessment Governing Board; Meeting
AGENCY: National Assessment Governing Board, Education.
ACTION: Notice of closed meeting.
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SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the schedule and proposed agenda of a
forthcoming closed meeting of the Nominations Committee of the National
Assessment Governing Board. This notice also describes the functions of
the Board. Notice of this meeting is required under section 10(a)(2) of
the Federal Advisory Committee Act.
DATE: March 31, 1994.
time: 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
location: 800 North Capitol Street NW., suite 825, Washington, DC.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mary Ann Wilmer, Operations Officer, National Assessment Governing
Board, suite 825, 800 North Capitol Street NW., Washington, DC 20002-
4233; Telephone: (202) 357-6938.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The National Assessment Governing Board is
established under section 406(i) of the General Education Provisions
Act (GEPA) as amended by section 3403 of the National Assessment of
Educational Progress Improvement Act (NAEP Improvement Act), Title III-
C of the Augustus F. Hawkins-Robert T. Stafford Elementary and
Secondary School Improvement Amendments of 1988 (Pub. L. 100-297), (20
USC 1221e-1).
The Board is established to formulate policy guidelines for the
National Assessment of Educational Progress. The Board is responsible
for selecting subject area to be assessed, developing assessment
objectives, identifying appropriate achievement goals for each grade
and subject tested, and establishing standards and procedures for
interstate and national comparisons.
The Nominations Committee of the National Assessment Governing
Board will meet in closed session on March 31, 1994, from 11 a.m. until
12:30 p.m., to act for the Board in selecting and recommending final
nominees to fill upcoming Board membership vacancies in the categories,
Chief State School Officer, Eighth Grade Classroom Teacher, Fourth
Grade Classroom Teacher, Elementary School Principal, Secondary School
Principal, and General Public, beginning October 1, 1994.
This Committee will discuss nominees' qualifications for Board
membership. These discussions will relate solely to the internal
personnel rules and practices of an agency and would disclose
information of a personal nature where disclosure would constitute a
clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy if conducted in open
session. Such matters are protected by exemptions (2) and (6) of
section 552b(c) of title 5 U.S.C.
A summary of the activities of the meeting and related matters,
which are informative to the public, consistent with policy of 5 U.S.C.
552b, will be available to the public within fourteen days after the
meeting.
Records are kept of all Board proceedings and are available for
public inspection at the U.S. Department of Education, National
Assessment Governing Board, suite 825, 800 North Capitol Street NW.,
Washington, DC, from 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Dated: March 14, 1994.
Roy Truby,
Executive Director, National Assessment Governing Board.
[FR Doc. 94-6432 Filed 3-17-94; 8:45 am]
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