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Hispanic and Black students are most frequently the recipients of disciplinary reprimands including suspensions and arrests (Civil Rights Data Collection).

Civil Rights Data Collection Data Snapshot: School Discipline (pp. 1 - 23, Issue brief No. 1).

Among the six charter schools we researched, according to Department of Education Office of Civil Rights data, in the 2013 - 2014 academic year, four had lower in - school suspension rates than their surrounding districts and two exceeded the in - school suspension rates of their respective districts (OCR, 2014).

Civil rights data collection: Data snapshot: School discipline.

But the volume of such cases — at least as reported by school districts — appears to have fluctuated dramatically in recent years: The number of districts reporting they were party to such orders or plans nearly doubled from the 2013 - 14 Civil Rights Data Collection to the 2015 - 16 collection that was released by the Education Department last month.

Nowicki and her team interviewed administrators, visited schools across the country, and used 2013 - 2014 data from the Civil Rights Data Collection, which includes disciplinary actions in more than 95,000 schools across the country.

What is the Civil Rights Data Collection?

Federal Civil Rights Data Highlight Racial Disparities in Discipline as DeVos Mulls Guidance Rollback

A recent report on civil rights data found that Pennsylvania provides lower per - student funding to school districts with greater racial diversity compared to economically similar districts with predominantly white student bodies.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said in a video presentation that the latest federal Civil Rights Data Collection project reported that one in five American high schools do not have a counselor.

Denise Marshall, executive director of the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates, said the findings from the civil rights data are concerning.

Check out our newest report, «Key Trends in Special Education in Charter Schools: A Secondary Analysis of the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC).»

Indeed, the latest federal civil rights data shows that Black K - 12 students are 3.8 times as likely to receive an out of school suspension and 2.2 times as likely to be subjected to a school - based arrest.

Culling through federal Office for Civil Rights data for 3,022 districts in 13 southern states, researchers Edward J. Smith and Shaun R. Harper determined that black kids were far more - likely to be suspended at more - disproportionate levels than white peers.

The U.S. Department of Education (ED) conducts the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) to collect data on key education characteristics of school districts.

2013 - 2014 Civil Rights Data Collection: A First Look (Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Education).

An analysis of recent Education Department civil rights data by the nonprofit research group Child Trends found that 54 percent of black students in mostly black middle schools and high schools have school - based law enforcement or security officers.

WASHINGTON — Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement after the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released the 2015 - 16 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC).

A new trove of federal civil rights data has, for the first time, captured a snapshot of the controversial practice of corporal punishment of preschoolers in the nation's public schools.

A few weeks ago, Education Week released an analysis of federal civil rights data on the use of corporal punishment in schools.

The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights on Tuesday released results of its survey — the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC)-- providing a comprehensive look at how more than 95,000 public schools in the United States are educating the nation's children.

«The Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) data released today are deeply troubling.

First, Dan, the office for civil rights data collection provides valuable information regarding school climate.

«We applaud the Department of Education for continuing its emphasis on robust civil rights data collection, which helps to identify our nation's gaps in educational opportunity,» Henderson said.

The analysis is based on data from the OCR's Civil Rights Data Collection from 2009 - 10.

Find out more about the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC), released in 2016, including a separate data story on chronic absenteeism in our Research section.

Molly worked for the Obama Administration at the U.S. Department of Education in the Office for Civil Rights, specifically on the recent transformation of the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) and other equity - focused initiatives.

According to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Education's Civil Rights data collection, Black, Latino, American Indian, and Alaska Native students are more likely to attend schools with high concentrations of inexperienced teachers.

The rate of suspensions has doubled since the 1970s to 3.45 million students in grades K - 12 during the 2011 - 12 academic year, according to the Civil Rights Data Collection just released by the U.S. Department of Education.

Federal civil rights data released by the U.S. Department of Education this year has shown that Black and Latino students are suspended or expelled three times more often than white students, and arrested for non-violent offenses over three times more frequently than white students.

Information about such patterns is lost in the blunt, school - level measure of absence embraced by the Civil Rights Data Collection survey, but that does not preclude these data from bringing light to a dark corner of education policy and practice.

Plus, the department wants states to analyze their slice of the Civil Rights Data Collection to better inform their efforts.

This report uses the Civil Rights Data Collection dataset released in early 2012 to raise questions and drive debate about the subject of teacher absence.

Student data from the Civil Rights Data Collection also tells us that suspended, arrested, or expelled students are disproportionately students of color.

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Civil Rights Data Collection: Teacher Equity.

April 2018 Release: 2015 - 2016 Civil Rights Data Collection, School Climate and Safety, U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights, biennial report.

Thanks to the release of the U.S. Department of Education's 2013 - 2014 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) in 2016, we can now see the first national picture of chronic absenteeism:

Key Trends in Special Education in Charter Schools: A Secondary Analysis of the Civil Rights Data Collection

This report is the culmination of two years of research into the Civil Rights Data Collection compiled and maintained by the United States Department of Education.

Civil Rights Data Collection Minority students across the country face harsher discipline, have less access to rigorous coursework, and are more often taught by lower - paid and less - experienced teachers, according to new data from the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR).

We still have unacceptable opportunity gaps in America, as our latest release of the Civil Rights Data Collection revealed.

Other problematic requirements, from the perspective of the officials interviewed, related to civil rights data collection, (Education Week reported extensively on that data) the Federal Funding and Transparency Act, and federal time distribution reports (the report noted that «in order for state and local federal grant recipients to use federal funds to pay salaries for their employees, they must document the employees» time spent on federally funded activities.)

The GAO has worked with both the Department of Education and the Department of Justice to recommend they «routinely analyze» and collect federal civil rights data to uncover disparities among the education of different racial groups.

· Create robust measures that utilize all of the data [and related indicators] available via required reporting at the U.S. Department of Education such as: the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and related reporting with the SPP, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the Civil Rights Data Collection.

Every administration has a different philosophy that governs the work of the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR).28 Education Secretary DeVos» actions show a clear deprioritization of the office: Under her leadership, the Education Department announced that the OCR will not actively investigate patterns of discriminatory practices, 29 rolled back guidance to prevent discrimination against transgender students, 30 and refused to commit to continue the Civil Rights Data Collection.31

08/19/2013: LULAC co-signs letter sent by over 40 organizations to U.S. Department of Education regarding civil rights data collection.

The Department of Education recently released data from our Civil Rights Data Collection survey showing that nearly 3 million students were suspended during the 2013 - 2014 school year.

According to the Civil Rights Data Collection, black students are suspended and expelled at a rate three times greater than white students.

Seventy - one percent of California children suspended in 2009 - 2010 were suspended two or more times during the school year, according to the Civil Rights Project's analysis of U.S. Department of Education's civil rights data.