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Compliance Reviews and Other Proactive Initiatives

 In addition to resolving complaints, OCR initiates compliance reviews  and takes other proactive steps to focus on specific compliance problems that  are particularly acute or national in scope. In general, targeted compliance  reviews and proactive initiatives maximize the impact of OCR's resources and  complement the complaint resolution process. These strategic activities benefit  large numbers of students through policy or program changes by recipients designed  to ensure compliance with the civil rights laws. 

 OCR initiated 53 compliance reviews in FY 2004 and brought 29 reviews to  successful resolution, some of which had been started in previous years. Compliance  review sites are selected based on various sources of information, including  information provided by parents, education groups, media, community organizations,  the public and, in certain circumstances, survey data to the extent it is supportedby other sources of information. 

 More than half of the compliance reviews initiated in FY 2004 (28) involved  a nationwide enforcement initiative to eliminate barriers to access for postsecondary  students with disabilities. Areas of focus for these compliance reviews at  both public and private postsecondary institutions included (but were not limited  to) accessibility to residence halls, classrooms and academic buildings, and  parking facilities. OCR also continued its efforts to review school districts'  misidentification of minority and English language learner students in specialeducation. 

 Of the 29 compliance reviews closed in FY 2004, 15 involved reviews of state  departments of education to ensure that Title IX coordinators were designated  and trained and that Title IX nondiscrimination policies and other informationwere published in accordance with regulations. 

Figure 3 shows the number of reviews initiated and resolved by compliance issue.

| OCR Compliance Reviews by Issue      FY2004                                                                                                             |
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| **Compliance Issue**                                                                                                                                    | **Initiated** | **Resolved*** |
| Ability Grouping                                                                                                                                        | 0 | 1 |
| Accessibility                                                                                                                                           | 28 | 0 |
| Admission to Vocational Education Programs (Title IX)                                                                                                   | 0 | 2 |
| High Stakes Testing (Section 504)                                                                                                                       | 1 | 0 |
| Limited English Proficient Students and Special Education/Services for       Students with Limited English Proficiency                                  | 8 | 3 |
| Minorities and Special Education                                                                                                                        | 15 | 9 |
| Procedural Requirements (Title IX)                                                                                                                      | 0 | 15 |
| Racial Harassment/Sexual Harassment                                                                                                                     | 1 | 2 |
| * Includes compliance reviews carried over from previous years.       Also, several reviews contain more than one compliance issue.***Figure       3*** |

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