Table 3-1 provides a count of officially reported incidents of school crime in the St. Louis school district during the time of our research. Weapons offenses and violence were even more common than drug offenses. And, as with official statistics generally, it is likely that these figures are just the tip of the iceberg since they represent only offenses that received formal response. So what does all of this have to do with gender-based violence and sexual harassment?
3 67 our research, the St. Louis Public School District has been unable to perform successfully enough to receive full accreditation from the state. In 1999, the district’s total accreditation score was just 23 points out of 100, far shy of the 66 needed for an accreditation rating.4 In addition, the city school district has […]