Civil Rights Data Collection (public schools)

The Civil Rights Data Collection is a biennial survey of public schools. The CRDC is a longstanding and critical aspect of the overall enforcement and monitoring strategy used by Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to ensure that recipients of the Department’s Federal financial assistance do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, and disability. Office for Civil Rights.

OCR relies on CRDC data it receives from public school districts as it investigates complaints alleging discrimination, determines whether the Federal civil rights laws it enforces have been violated.