The OCR Elementary and Secondary School Survey in the U.S. Department of Education is the instrument used by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to obtain trend data from the nation's public elementary and secondary schools. These surveys provide information about the enrollment of students in public schools in every state and about some educational services to those students. These data are reported by race/ethnicity, sex, and disability.
Information collected in the E&S Surveys is collected pursuant to 34 C.F.R. Section 100.6(b) of Department of Education regulation implementing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The requirements are also incorporated by reference in Department regulations implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975. The Department of Justice also has delegated OCR responsibility for enforcing Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. School, district, state, and national data are currently available. The reported data from individual public schools and districts collected by the Elementary and Secondary School Survey were used to generate projected national and state data.
In recent surveys, the sample has been approximately 6,000 districts and 60,000 schools; however, in 2000 all public school districts were sampled. In a sample survey, the following districts are sampled with certainty: districts having more than 25,000 students; all districts in states having 25 or fewer public school districts; and districts subject to Federal Court Order and monitored by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Further information on the Elementary and Secondary School Survey can be obtained from:
Mary Schifferli
Office for Civil Rights
U.S. Department of Education
555 12th Street, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20202
Mary.Schifferli@ed.gov
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/index.html
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