Trump administration scrubs data on gender-based bullying from school

[Sarah B ✅]

Title: Trump administration scrubs data on gender-based bullying from school civil rights survey
Link To: Article 🔗 [Link: apnews.com/article/civil-​rights-​education-​bullying-​data-​gender-​nonbinary-​f1b23fb6b03ed500f0bf02d1c8c8724f/]
Author: SHARON LURYE and ANNIE MA
Date: September 04, 2026
Trigger Warning: None
Brief summary of the article
The Trump administration released updated Education Department civil rights data for the 2023-2024 school year with information related to nonbinary students and gender-identity-based bullying suppressed. The article says the changes affect data from the Civil Rights Data Collection, including information about harassment allegations, district policies and links to those policies. Advocates and researchers quoted in the article said the suppression limits understanding of transgender and nonbinary students' school experiences.
Main Points of the Article
"The Trump administration this week quietly released an update to a major survey on civil rights in schools that was scrubbed of all data related to nonbinary students or bullying based on gender identity."

"The numbers come from the Education Department's Civil Rights Data Collection, a federal survey of nearly every public school in the nation."

"The government also suppressed the number of allegations of harassment or bullying on the basis of gender identity in schools, information about whether the districts had written policies prohibiting such harassment, and any links to those policies."

"We're losing the granular experience of those kids," Galanter said.

"No one's being held accountable to these kids," Bouton said.
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