The Statistics Center may establish 1 or more national cooperative education statistics systems for the purpose of producing and maintaining, with the cooperation of the States , comparable and uniform information and data on early childhood education, elementary and secondary education , postsecondary education , adult education, and libraries, that are useful for policymaking at the Federal, State, and local levels. ( Pub. L. 107–279, title I, § 157 , Nov. 5, 2002 , 116 Stat. 1962 .)