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The department also won't ask districts to report pending cases or cases in which a school staffer was reassigned to another district school prior to the conclusion of an investigation.  Reporting alleged sex crimes in addition to documented cases provides a fuller picture of sexual violence in schools, as the accused may retire, resign, or seek employment elsewhere before a district can reach a conclusion in the case.

The department also won't ask districts to report pending cases or cases in which a school staffer was reassigned to another district school prior to the conclusion of an investigation.  Reporting alleged sex crimes in addition to documented cases provides a fuller picture of sexual violence in schools, as the accused may retire, resign, or seek employment elsewhere before a district can reach a conclusion in the case.

Office for Civil Rights data collected during the Trump administration found that sexual assault and rape cases surged in public schools over the past decade. DeVos added those optional questions to the 2020-2021 data collection after the 2017-2018 survey found that nearly 15,000 allegations of rape, attempted rape, and sexual assault were reported during that school year, according to an October 2020 brief on the statistics. That data set did not distinguish between teacher-on-student and student-on-student crimes.  One top Biden apparatchik has been accused of mishandling allegations of sexual abuse. Four women allege that Deputy Secretary of Education Cindy Marten ignored their complaints against a teacher while she was the superintendent of San Diego Unified School District.

Office for Civil Rights data collected during the Trump administration found that sexual assault and rape cases surged in public schools over the past decade. Trump Secretary [[Betsy DeVos]] added those optional questions after the 2017-2018 survey found that nearly 15,000 allegations of rape, attempted rape, and sexual assault were reported during that school year. That data set did not distinguish between teacher-on-student and student-on-student crimes.   

Public schools' mishandling of sexual assault cases has become a political liability for Democrats across the country. Allegations that school officials in [[Loudoun County, Virginia]] school district covered up a double rape case roiled parents just weeks before the gubernatorial election. Teacher-union-backed Democrat [[Terry McAuliffe]] lost to Republican [[Glenn Youngkin]] by 2 points in the state, where socialist premier Joe Biden is alleged to have won by a 10-point margin.  [[American Enterprise Institute]] research fellow Max Eden tells the Free Beacon that the Education Department's move is unsurprising, given the Biden regime's ties to teachers' unions.  "Teachers' unions have a structural interest in protecting all of their members—including alleged [[pedophile]]s," Eden said. "Data suggesting systemic nonchalance about child sexual abuse in public schools would be quite politically inconvenient for teachers' unions. Now the data won't be collected."<ref>https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/bidens-education-department-wants-to-roll-back-effort-to-catalog-teacher-sex-crimes/</ref>

Public schools' mishandling of sexual assault cases has become a political liability for Democrats across the country. One top Biden apparatchik has been accused of mishandling allegations of sexual abuse. Four women allege that Deputy Secretary of Education Cindy Marten ignored their complaints against a teacher while she was the superintendent of San Diego Unified School District.  Allegations that school officials in [[Loudoun County, Virginia]] school district covered up a double rape case roiled parents just weeks before the gubernatorial election. Teacher-union-backed Democrat [[Terry McAuliffe]] lost to Republican [[Glenn Youngkin]] by 2 points in the state, where socialist premier Joe Biden is alleged to have won by a 10-point margin.  [[American Enterprise Institute]] research fellow Max Eden tells the Free Beacon that the Education Department's move is unsurprising, given the Biden regime's ties to teachers' unions.  "Teachers' unions have a structural interest in protecting all of their members—including alleged [[pedophile]]s," Eden said. "Data suggesting systemic nonchalance about child sexual abuse in public schools would be quite politically inconvenient for teachers' unions. Now the data won't be collected."<ref>https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/bidens-education-department-wants-to-roll-back-effort-to-catalog-teacher-sex-crimes/</ref>

==War on Parents==

==War on Parents==