Report of Sexual Harassment in the 20 Largest U.S. School Districts

American Association of University Women (AAUW)

Since 1968, the U.S. Department of Education’s Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) has gathered data from schools to ensure equal educational opportunity for all children in public schools. A variety of information, including enrollment, educational programs and services, is reported by the schools, and all data are disaggregated by race/ethnicity, sex, limited English proficiency, and disability. This year, for the first time ever, the CRDC included information on harassment and bullying.

AAUW analyzed data from the online 2009–10 CRDC by using a search tool for the largest 20 school districts based on student population and selecting three data categories for each district: allegations of bullying and harassment on the basis of sex, incidents of discipline for harassment or bullying on basis of sex, and students reported to have been harassed or bullied on basis of sex.

The results of the AAUW analysis are shown in this table.