2023-01338. Notice Pursuant to The National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-1EdTech Consortium, Inc.

Notice is hereby given that, on November 4, 2022, pursuant to Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (“the Act”), 1EdTech Consortium, Inc. (“1EdTech Consortium”) has filed written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing changes in its membership. The notifications were filed for the purpose of extending the Act's provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances. Specifically, Allegheny Intermediate Unit, Homestead, PA; ClassLink, Clifton, NJ; Ednition, Kaysville, UT; Ingham Intermediate School District, Mason, MI; Memphis-Shelby County Schools, Memphis, TN; New York City Department of Education Division of Instruction and Information Technology, Brooklyn, NY; and UniverSIS, Thessaloniki, GREECE, have been added as parties to this venture.

Also, Kimono, Salt Lake City, UT; Pittsburgh Public, Pittsburgh, PA; Follett, Westchester, IL; and Keller ISD, Keller, TX, have withdrawn as parties to this venture.

No other changes have been made in either the membership or planned activity of the group research project. Membership in this group research project remains open, and 1EdTech Consortium intends to file additional written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.

On April 7, 2000, 1EdTech Consortium filed its original notification pursuant to Section 6(a) of the Act. The Department of Justice published a notice in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on September 13, 2000 (65 FR 55283).

The last notification was filed with the Department on August 18, 2022. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on September 13, 2022 (87 FR 56089).

Suzanne Morris,

Deputy Director of Civil Enforcement Operations, Antitrust Division.