Education Policy Analysis Archives
Analyzing harm, power, and the possibilities for redress for harassment: An intersectional analysis of civil rights complaints
Although education is often framed as a neutral system in which students are granted equitable access and opportunities, schools are situated within charged sociopolitical contexts, replicating many macrolevel inequities within their structures. Positioned externally to school districts, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has historically served as a policy lever, occupying a critical role for potentially identifying, investigating, and addressing individual and system level harms thro …