Data · dataset · 2007
Elementary and Secondary School Civil Rights Survey Files
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The agency conducted these surveys to monitor compliance by school systems with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Description
The agency used the surveys to identify discrimination, to monitor the school integration process and specific complaints, to target and screen districts for in-depth review, and to better budget resources to maximize its planning and impact. This series contains samples of more than 16,000 school districts in the nation.
The 1968, 1970, and 1972 surveys contained all d istricts with enrollments over 3,000; 75 percent of all districts with enrollments of 1,200 to 2,999; 50 percent of all districts with enrollments of 600 to 1,199; 25 percent of all districts with enrollments of 300 to 599; all districts eliminating segregation under a court order or a Department of Health, Education, and Welfare approved plan, in litigation over compliance, or receiving Emergency School Assistance.
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The 95 districts which had had Federal funds terminated for non-compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 were eliminated from the surveys. The 1976 survey has data for all school districts and schools within selected districts. The 1968, 1970, and 1972 files contain three types of records, System (district) records, school records, and classroom records (in 1972 only).
Each system record includes the Office of Education (OE) code number, system name, address, and chief administrative officer; pupils by ethnic / racial group, residence, and attendance; and teacher and staff by racial / ethnic group. Each school record contains the system OE code, school name, grades offered, and staff (administrators, teachers, others) by racial/ethnic group and grade level. Each 1972 classroom record contains the identifying codes, grade level, and racial / ethnic composition.
The 1976 school district data includes name of school system and geographic identifiers; number of schools; number of pupils by racial / ethnic group; and counts of pupils by racial / ethnic group in vocational, special education, and gifted and talented program s. The 1976 school data includes name of school; grades offered; attendance, truancy, and suspensions by racial / ethnic group; counts of pupils in various special education and gifted and talented programs by racial / ethnic group and sex; and counts of pupils by grade by racial / ethnic group and sex.
This data comprises government records extracted from the Archival Research Catalog (ARC). See the ARC catalog entry for this series for more information on this data and how to order it.
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