1968-98 Civil Rights Data Collection

Name: 1968-98 Civil Rights Data Collection
Published: 2025-02-15
License: https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0

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Project Citation:

United States Department of Education. Office for Civil Rights. 1968-98 Civil Rights Data Collection. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-02-15. https://doi.org/10.3886/E219621V1

Project Description

Project Title: 1968-98 Civil Rights Data Collection

Summary:

The Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC), formerly administered as the Elementary and Secondary School Civil Rights Survey, is an important part of the U.S. Department of Education's (Department) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) strategy for administering and enforcing civil rights laws in the nation’s public school districts and schools. The CRDC collects a variety of information including student access to rigorous courses, programs, resources, instructional and other school staff, and school climate factors such as student discipline and harassment and bullying. Much of the data is disaggregated by race/ethnicity, sex, disability and whether students are English Learners.

Since the 2011–12 school year, OCR has collected data from all public districts and their schools in the 50 states and Washington, DC. Over time the CRDC’s collection universe has grown to include long-term secure justice facilities, charter schools, alternative schools, and special education schools that focus primarily on serving students with disabilities. OCR added the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to the CRDC, beginning with the 2017-18 CRDC. From 1968 to 2010, civil rights data were collected from a sample of public districts and their schools, except for the 1976 and 2000 collections, which included data from all public schools and districts.The purpose of the CRDC Archival Download Tool (Archival Tool) is to make the Department’s civil rights data from 1968 to 1998 publicly available. The Archival Tool organizes civil rights data by year, and provides users with access to the data, survey forms, and other relevant documentation. The tool also includes documentation on key historical CRDC data changes from 1968 to 1998. Users may extract district-level civil rights data.

Important Consideration: Past collections and publicly released reports may contain some terms that readers may consider obsolete, offensive and/or inappropriate. As part of the Department’s goal to be open and transparent with the public, we are providing access to all civil rights data in its original format.Privacy notice:
The Department of Education’s Disclosure Review Board determined that the CRDC files for 1968-1998 are safe for public “re-release” under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) (20 U.S.C. § 1232g; 34 CFR Part 99).

Original Distribution URL: https://civilrightsdata.ed.gov/archive

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: elementary education; secondary education; correctional education; civil rights; education; disabilities; discrimination

Geographic Coverage: United States

Time Period(s): 1968 – 1998

Universe: All 50 American states and Washington, DC.

Data Type(s): survey data

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