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K-12 Civil Rights Complaints: Nationwide Data (1999-2019)

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Maithreyi Gopalan, Pennsylvania State University; Maria Lewis, Pennsylvania State University

Version:  View help for Version V1

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OCR_Complaints_National.csv text/csv 37.8 MB 08/02/2022 05:31:AM

Project Citation: 

Gopalan, Maithreyi, and Lewis, Maria. K-12 Civil Rights Complaints: Nationwide Data (1999-2019). Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-08-02. https://doi.org/10.3886/E176682V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary Through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, we sought information on all Office of Civil Rights (OCR) complaints filed against school districts between January 1st, 1999, and Dec 31st, 2019. In this dataset, we share the raw data received through the FOIA which includes the nature of the complaint, the associated civil rights law (including the specific section of the statute), the outcome of the complaint, the time for resolution, and the school district identifiers. A preliminary analysis of this data has been reported in a peer-reviewed publication "K-12 Civil Rights Complaints: A Nationwide Analysis" forthcoming in Educational Researcher.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms disparities; equity; education policy; K-12; civil rights
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage US
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1999 – 2019
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) administrative records data; aggregate data
Collection Notes:  View help for Collection Notes Collected by PIs through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Office of Civil Rights


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