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Date Posted: Friday, July28, 05:03:pm
Author: a Bigger clique
Subject: Re: Mass Exit
In reply to: Ex-Educator 's message, "Re: Mass Exit" on Friday, July28, 12:33:pm

"Federal data documents an epidemic of sexual abuse in public schools. Between 2010
and 2019, the number of complaints filed with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office
for Civil Rights (OCR) alleging sexual violence against K–12 schools more than tripled.
The most recently published Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC)—from 97,632 schools—
underscores this unfortunate trend. For 2015–16, the CRDC reported 9,649 incidents of
sexual violence; of that number, 394 constituted instances of rape or attempted rape.
For 2017–18, the numbers were 13,799 and 685, respectively—an increase of 43 percent
and 74 percent.
- The latest CRDC dates from 2017–18, so parents, teachers, and students do not have
timely, reliable, and publicly available data about sexual abuse in their schools.
Compounding this problem are instances in which a local education agency (LEA),
often acting in concert with the local teacher union leaders, conceals sexual abuse by
permitting accused employees to resign and move to a new school or district rather
than face investigation and possible punishment—a practice called “passing the trash.”
- LEAs and unions use collective bargaining and nondisclosure agreements to conceal
the records of abusive employees, and union leaders wield their powerful influence
in many state legislatures to stymie legislation that would hold public employees
accountable for their sexual misconduct in schools.
- States should penalize public school employees who fail to report sexual abuse
committed by colleagues; establish penalties for school district personnel who help
employees find jobs in other school systems when they have “probable cause” to
believe that these employees have engaged in sexual abuse; and prohibit agreements
that conceal records of sexual misconduct by teachers.
- OCR must do more to enforce Title IX in public schools so as to protect students from
sexual assault and other abuse, provide support to victims, and investigate abuse
allegations fairly and in a timely manner.
- Congress should require LEAs to report and publish annually school-level data on the
violent crimes, including sexual assault, occurring in their educational activities and
programs. Congress should also mandate financial penalties for an LEA’s failure to
report this data.
..."
https://dfipolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Catching-the-Trash-FNL.pdf

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