Elementary and Secondary Schools Civil Rights Survey, 1968-1984,1986, 1988 (Binary EBCDIC) (M131V1)

NOTE: Some Data files are in BINARY EBCDIC format. The Elementary and Secondary School Civil Rights Surveys are conducted by OCR (Office for Civil Rights) to fulfill its responsibilities under Title VI (Civil Rights Act of 1964), Title IX (Education Amendments of 1972) and Section 504, Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Over the years, the survey has undergone changes in scope, coverage, content, and methodology. These changes reflect the expansion of the OCR's responsibility as well as shifts in civil rights issues. The primary purpose of this survey has been to collect data that could assist OCR in identifying school systems with potential problems. Initially the primary focus of the survey was to identify racially dual systems with an emphasis in the rural South. Since then the scope of the survey has broadened to include discrimination on the basis of sex or handicap and to address such \"second generation\" problems as discriminatory discipline practices, tracking and ability grouping, student assignments within schools, etc.