A large box of pre-assembled mail-in ballots at the Wake County Board of Elections on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026, in Raleigh, N.C. (AP Photo/Matt Ramey)
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The administration quietly released an update to the 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 survey of nearly every public school in the nation. The release this week covers the 2023-2024 school year, when the survey included “nonbinary” as a gender category alongside male and female.











