116 STAT. 1958 PUBLIC LAW 107-279—NOV. 5, 2002 (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. 20 USC 9542. SEC. 152. 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. 20 USC 9543. SEC. 153. DUTIES. (a) GENERAL DUTIES. —The Statistics Center shall collect, report, analyze, and disseminate statistical data related to education in the United States and in other nations, including— (1) collecting, acquiring, compiling (where appropriate, on a State-by-State basis), and disseminating full and complete statistics (disaggregated by the population characteristics described in paragraph (3)) on the condition and progress of education, at the preschool, elementary, secondary, postsecondary, and adult levels in the United States, including data on— (A) State and local education reform activities; (B) State and local early childhood school readiness activities; (C) student achievement in, at a minimum, the core academic areas of reading, mathematics, and science at all levels of education; (D) secondary school completions, dropouts, and adult literacy and reading skills; (E) access to, and opportunity for, postsecondary education, including data on financial aid to postsecondary students; (F) teaching, including— (i) data on in-service professional development, including a comparison of courses taken in the core academic areas of reading, mathematics, and science with courses in noncore academic areas, including technology courses; and (ii) the percentage of teachers who are highly qualified (as such term is defined in section 9101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801)) in each State and, where feasible, in each local educational agency and school; (G) instruction, the conditions of the education workplace, and the supply of, and demand for, teachers; (H) the incidence, frequency, seriousness, and nature of violence affecting students, school personnel, and other individuals participating in school activities, as well as other indices of school safety, including information regarding—
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