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President Biden's Department of Education has proposed rolling back reporting data on the number of alleged sexual assaults and rapes in schools.
The department's Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has proposed new rules to 'retire' data sets, and the proposal is now up for a 60-day period of public comment.
In order to 'reduce the reporting burden,' last week the OCR proposed eliminating accusations of rape or sexual assault. The OCR will still ask schools to submit data on the number of documented incidents of rape or sexual assault within their school system.
However, they will not be asked to report the number of accusations of sexual assault or rape, either student-to-student or staff-to-student, that resulted in resignation or retirement of the accused, or such allegations that resulted in a teacher's reassignment to another school district.
President Biden's Department of Education has proposed rolling back reporting data on the number of alleged sexual assaults and rapes in schools
Public schools' mishandling of sexual assault was launched into the spotlight when parents alleged that a school district in Loudoun County, Virginia covered up a sexual assault case
'For the 2021-22 CRDC, OCR will continue to collect data on the number of documented incidents of offenses committed by school staff, including rape or attempted rape, and sexual assault. These are data the CRDC has collected since 2015-16. We propose
