---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 9541"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "9541"
heading: "Establishment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/9541"
units:
  - "Chapter 76 — Education Research, Statistics, Evaluation, Information, and Dissemination"
  - "Subchapter I — Education Sciences Reform"
  - "Part C — National Center for Education Statistics"
---

# §9541. Establishment

- (a) **Establishment—** There is established in the [Institute](/usc/20/9501.md?p=14) a National Center for Education Statistics (in this part referred to as the “Statistics Center”).
- (b) **Mission—** The mission of the Statistics Center shall be—
  - (1) to collect and analyze education information and statistics in a manner that meets the highest methodological standards;
  - (2) to report education information and statistics in a timely manner; and
  - (3) to collect, analyze, and report education information and statistics in a manner that—
    - (A) is objective, secular, neutral, and nonideological and is free of partisan political influence and racial, cultural, gender, or regional bias; and
    - (B) is relevant and useful to practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and the public.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–279, title I, § 151, Nov. 5, 2002, 116 Stat. 1957.)