The U.S. Department of Education has stopped releasing a key civil rights dataset — one that tracks bullying, harassment and disability services across the country’s public schools — and the delay has now stretched past six months.
Collected through the department’s Civil Rights Data Collection program, the figures have long served as a public record of how schools handle students with disabilities, respond to harassment complaints and discipline students. It hasn’t been made public under the current administration.
Six months. No release date announced.
Researchers, advocates and school boards rely on the data to compare district-level performance on civil rights compliance; without it, gaps in services or patterns of discrimination are harder to document — and harder to challenge.
The Education Department hasn’t offered a public explanation for the delay. No timeline for release has been given.
