---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 9542"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "9542"
heading: "Commissioner for Education Statistics"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/9542"
units:
  - "Chapter 76 — Education Research, Statistics, Evaluation, Information, and Dissemination"
  - "Subchapter I — Education Sciences Reform"
  - "Part C — National Center for Education Statistics"
---

# §9542. Commissioner for Education Statistics


The Statistics Center shall be headed by a Commissioner for Education Statistics (in this part referred to as the “Statistics Commissioner”) who shall be highly qualified and have substantial knowledge of statistical methodologies and activities undertaken by the Statistics Center.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–279, title I, § 152, Nov. 5, 2002, 116 Stat. 1958.)