---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 9576"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "9576"
heading: "Authority to publish"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/9576"
units:
  - "Chapter 76 — Education Research, Statistics, Evaluation, Information, and Dissemination"
  - "Subchapter I — Education Sciences Reform"
  - "Part F — General Provisions"
---

# §9576. Authority to publish

- (a) **Publication—** The [Director](/usc/20/9501.md?p=9) may prepare and publish (including through oral presentation) such research, statistics (consistent with part C), and evaluation information and reports from any office, [board](/usc/20/9501.md?p=4), committee, and center of the [Institute](/usc/20/9501.md?p=14), as needed to carry out the priorities and mission of the [Institute](/usc/20/9501.md?p=14) without the approval of the [Secretary](/usc/20/9501.md?p=21) or any other office of the [Department](/usc/20/9501.md?p=7).
- (b) **Advance copies—** The [Director](/usc/20/9501.md?p=9) shall provide the [Secretary](/usc/20/9501.md?p=21) and other relevant offices with an advance copy of any information to be published under this section before publication.
- (c) **Peer review—** All research, statistics, and evaluation reports conducted by, or supported through, the [Institute](/usc/20/9501.md?p=14) shall be subjected to rigorous peer review before being published or otherwise made available to the public.
- (d) **Items not covered—** Nothing in subsections[^1] (a), (b), or (c) shall be construed to apply to—
  - (1) information on current or proposed budgets, appropriations, or legislation;
  - (2) information prohibited from disclosure by law or the Constitution, classified national security information, or information described in [section 552(b) of title 5](/usc/5/552.md?p=b); and
  - (3) review by officers of the United States in order to prevent the unauthorized disclosure of information described in paragraph [(1)](#d-1) or [(2)](#d-2).

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “subsection”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–279, title I, § 186, Nov. 5, 2002, 116 Stat. 1973.)