**Background Information**            The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) collected data about key education and  civil rights issues for the 2013-14 school year from virtually every public  school in the country through the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC). The CRDC collects a variety of information including student enrollment and  educational programs and services, most of which is disaggregated by  race/ethnicity, sex, limited English proficiency, and disability.  For  more general information about the CRDC (including past and future collections),  visit the CRDC home page. 

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**2013-14 CRDC******

OCR and other parts of the Department of  Education will be releasing documents in 2016 that use the 2013-14 CRDC data to  provide insights into equity in school districts.  
            - Press  Release  (issued June 7, 2016)  *Public announcement of availability of 2013-14 CRDC data*
            - First Look Report  PDF  (770K) (issued June 7, 2016; updated October 28, 2016) *A broad overview of the data from the 2013-14 CRDC in an initial  report of key areas of inequity and progress* 
            - Chronic  Absenteeism Story Map  (issued June 10,  2016; updated October 28, 2016)      *Data visualizations of chronic absenteeism in our nation’s  schools*
            - Corporal  Punishment Map   and  Press  Release  (issued November 22,  2016)  *Displaying the use of corporal punishment across the country, by  school district*
            - Protecting the Civil  Rights of Students Being Educated in the Juvenile Justice System  PDF  (639.5K) (issued December 2, 2016) *Spotlighting indicators of the quantity and quality of  educational programs for youth in confinement*
            - Executive Office of  the President: The Continuing Need to Rethink Discipline (issued December 9, 2016)     *Examining data related to discipline, restraint and seclusion, and chronic absenteeism*
            - Council of Economic  Advisers,  Civil  Rights Data Show More Work is Needed to Reduce Inequities in K-12 Schools (issued December 9,  2016) *Describes data and research on educational inequities in six  types of educational inputs in K-12 schools, complementing the White House  report released on the same day*

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**Access 2013-14 CRDC  Data******

Data from the 2000, 2004, 2006, 2009-10,  2011-12, and 2013-14 CRDC surveys are available in the CRDC reporting tool at http://ocrdata.ed.gov.

*** UPDATE (as of June 2017):   OCR released the final data file from the 2013-14 CRDC.  This final data file contains, in addition to prior corrections to the Florida data, corrections from 16 school districts for a variety of data issues, including preschool enrollment, suspensions and expulsions, chronic student absenteeism, teacher absenteeism, referrals to law enforcement, school-related arrests, expulsions, harassment or bullying, and advanced placement enrollment.  Information on the districts that submitted corrections, and the specific data issues corrected for each district is detailed in the notes for the data file.**
            - An  updated  public-use data file containing the entire  2013-14 CRDC in CSV format can be downloaded in a    zip file  (564M).   Warning  – Large file.

If you want assistance regarding the data  file:
            - The  Public-Use  Data File User’s Manual  for  the 2013-14 CRDC provides information about the purpose of the study, the  target population and respondents, data anomalies and considerations,  differences in the restricted and public-use data, data collection procedures,  the data file structure, and data processing.
            - The 2013-14 CRDC  school-level  and  district-level  table layouts are also available for review.

If you are interested in obtaining a license  to access the 2013-14 CRDC restricted data file, please visit the National  Center for Education Statistics page for Restricted-use  Data Applicants.

 

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**For additional information about the CRDC,  please e-mail OCR at****ocrdata@ed.gov**.