---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 9567a"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "9567a"
heading: "Commissioner for Special Education Research"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/9567a"
units:
  - "Chapter 76 — Education Research, Statistics, Evaluation, Information, and Dissemination"
  - "Subchapter I — Education Sciences Reform"
  - "Part E — National Center for Special Education Research"
---

# §9567a. Commissioner for Special Education Research


The Special Education Research Center shall be headed by a Commissioner for Special Education Research (in this part referred to as the “Special Education Research Commissioner”) who shall have substantial knowledge of the Special Education Research Center’s activities, including a high level of expertise in the fields of research, research management, and the education of children with disabilities.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–279, title I, § 176, as added Pub. L. 108–446, title II, § 201(a)(2), Dec. 3, 2004, 118 Stat. 2799.)