Seth Galanter

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Education Department releases school civil rights data months late, with gender identity entries suppressed

Former OCR attorney under Biden and Obama administrations

America's only federal survey of how public schools treat students by race, gender and disability arrived on Aug. 31, 2026 — months late, with no summary report, and with every number about nonbinary students replaced by a code: "Suppressed in Compliance with Executive Order." The release covers the 2023-24 school year, when the survey included "nonbinary" as a gender category alongside male and female.

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