[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 141 (Wednesday, July 23, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 39505]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-19241]
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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 Subject Area 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.
DATES: July 30, 1997.
TIME: 8:30 A.M.--5:00 P.M. (closed) (et).
LOCATION: Ritz Carlton Hotel, Pentagon City, 1250 South Hayes Street,
Arlington, Virginia.
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 412 of the National Education Statistics Act
of 1994 (Title IV of the Improving America's Schools Act of 1994),
(Pub. L. 103-382).
The Board is established to formulate policy guidelines for the
National Assessment of Educational Progress. The Board is responsible
for selecting subject areas 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 public is being given less than 15 days notice of this closed
meeting because of summer schedules which made it difficult to find a
date mutually agreeable to a quorum of the Committee.
On July 30, 1997 between the hours of 8:30 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. the
Subject Area Committee of the National Assessment Governing Board will
hold a closed meeting. The Committee will be reviewing items for the
1998 Civics assessment. This meeting must be conducted in closed
session because references will be made to specific items from the
assessment and premature disclosure of the information presented for
review would be likely to significantly frustrate implementation of a
proposed agency action. Such matters are protected by exemption (9)B of
section 552b(c) of Title 5 U.S.C.
Summaries of the activities of this closed meeting and related
matters, which are informative to the public and consistent with the
policy of section 5 U.S.C. 552b(c), will be available to the public
within 14 days of 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. to 5:00 P.M.
Roy Truby,
Executive Director.
[FR Doc. 97-19241 Filed 7-22-97; 8:45 am]
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