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Office of Civil Rights Release 2009-2010 Data
New Data from the U.S. Department of Education 2009-10 Civil Rights Data Collection Show Continuing Disparities in Educational Opportunities and Resources
Data collected by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights highlights significant disparities in educational resources and opportunities for students across the country. Known as the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC), the survey covers approximately 7,000 school districts and more than 72,000 schools. Part 1 data was made available to the public this past June; Part 2 of the CRDC is expected to be released this fall.
The sample included school districts of all sizes, including every school district with more than 3,000 students as well as state-operated juvenile justice facilities. For the first time, the survey was conducted in two phases: Part 1 collected primarily enrollment data, while Part 2 collected cumulative and end-of-year data. Most of the student data are disaggregated by race/ethnicity, sex, disability (including additional disaggregation by disability status in some instances), and limited English proficient status.
Some findings:
3,000 schools serving nearly 500,000 high school students offer no algebra 2 classes, and more than 2 million students in about 7,300 schools had no access to calculus classes.
Schools serving mostly African-American students are twice as likely to have teachers with one or two years of experience than are schools within the same district that serve mostly White students.
Only 2 percent of the students with disabilities are taking at least one Advanced Placement class.
Students with limited English proficiency make up 6 percent of the high school population (in grades 9-12), but are 15 percent of the students for whom algebra is the highest-level math course taken by the final year of their high school career.
Girls are underrepresented in physics, while boys are underrepresented in algebra II.
The Part 2 data, which will be released this fall, will include: numbers of students passing algebra, taking AP tests, and passing AP tests; significantly expanded discipline data; data on restraint and seclusion; retention data by grade; teacher absenteeism rates; school funding data; and data on incidents of harassment and bullying. Part 2 data will highlight some of the most important civil rights issues facing our schools today, such as whether certain groups of students are being disciplined more harshly or more often than other groups, and whether all groups are equally likely to be taking the SAT or ACT-the tests most likely to help them enter college.
The Part 1 data are available on OCR's website for the CRDC, http://ocrdata.ed.gov. The website also contains all CRDC data for 2000, 2004, and 2006. For further information about OCR, please visit, www.ed.gov/ocr. For further information on the 2009-10 CRDC, visit http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/whatsnew.html.
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