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Civil Rights Data Collection

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Civil Rights Data Collection

• The CRDC is a mandatory data collection administrated by the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights

• Authorized under:

– Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

– Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972

– Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973

– Americans with Disabilities Act

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Civil Rights Data Collection

• Biennial collection of school/facility and district level data began in 1968

• Collected directly from LEAs (including state agencies operating educational programs)

• All data is privacy protected

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Civil Rights Data Collection

• Juvenile justice facilities included in the CRDC in response to:

– Concerns about the school to prison pipeline leading to increased data on school discipline

– Questions about educational programs in juvenile justice facilities

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CRDC: What’s Collected?

• Student Data

– CRDC collects membership data disaggregated by

• Race/ethnicity (7 categories)

• Sex

• ELL

• Disability - IDEA

• Disability – Section 504 only

– All other student data is also disaggregated

– IDEA by disability (from EDFacts)

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CRDC: What’s Collected?

• Number of students participating in GED program & number receiving GED credential

• Algebra I course-taking by 7&8 grade, 9&10 grades, 11 & 12 grades

• Students passing Algebra I by 7&8, 9&10, 11&12 grades

• Algebra II, Geometry, Advanced Math, Calculus, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, AP

• ELL participation in ELL programs

• Retention (by grade)

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CRDC: What’s Collected?

• Discipline

– Includes suspensions, expulsions and corporal punishment

– Separate data for students with disabilities & without disabilities

– Includes any disciplinary action at the facility that results in student not attending school

• Bullying and harassment on the basis of race, sex or disability

– Number of incidents, students subject to, or disciplined for

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CRDC: What’s Collected?

• Restraints and Seclusion• Separate tables for students with

disabilities and without disabilities

• Mechanical restraints, physical restraints, seclusion

• Number of incidents

• Number of students

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CRDC: What’s Collected?

• Staff

– Teachers

• FTE of teachers

• FTE of certified teachers

• Teacher experience

– Number in first year of teaching– Number in second year of teaching

• FTE of teachers absent more than 10 school days

– Counselors

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CRDC: What’s Collected?

• School finance (state and local funds)

• Total personnel salaries

• Total instructional-staff salaries

• Teacher salaries & number of teachers

• Non-personnel expenditures

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Find CRDC Data

• All CRDC data is available at http://ocrdata.ed.gov.

• Here’s how to find a list of all juvenile justice facilities from your state that were included in the 2011-12 CRDC and their data

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CRDC: Accessing JJ Data

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CRDC Highlights: Teacher Equity

• Access to experienced teachers:

– Black, Latino, American Indian and Native-Alaskan students attend schools with higher concentrations of first-year teachers (3 to 4%) than white students (1%)

– English learners also attend schools with slightly higher concentrations of first-year teachers (3%) than non-English learners (2%)

• Access to certified teachers:

– Nearly half a million students nationwide attend schools where 60% or fewer of teachers meet all state certification and licensure requirements

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CRDC Highlights: Teacher Equity

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CRDC Highlights: College and Career Readiness

• Significant lack of access to core courses:

– 10-25% of high schools do not offer more than one of the core courses in the typical sequence of high school math and science education such as Algebra I and II, geometry, biology, and chemistry.

– 25% of high schools with the highest percentage of black and Latino students :

• do not offer Algebra II

• 33% of these schools do not offer chemistry.

– Less than half of American Indian and Native-Alaskan high school students have access to the full range of math and science courses in their high school

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CRDC Highlights: College and Career Readiness

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CRDC Highlights: College and Career Readiness

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CRDC Highlights: College and Career Readiness

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CRDC Highlights: School Discipline

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CRDC Highlights: School Discipline

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CRDC Highlights: School Discipline