About the Study: The above data and more can be found at the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights website on this page: http://ocrdata.ed.gov/ The above state and national totals are statistical projections. Within each state you may find the data reported by your local school district, if it was one of the 6,000 districts asked for hard data. If your district is not listed, it was not surveyed or failed to report survey data.Here is how to look up specific school districts on the Department of Education website: Process for looking up Office for Civil Rights corporal punishment stats for school districts: Here’s how to find corporal punishment data for your school district and school: To get corporal punishment data from your school or school district, go to this website: http://ocrdata.ed.gov/ Depending on whether you are searching for district survey results or results from a specific school, go to the “school search” or “district search” screen, fill out the form field, check the latest year of available data, and press “Search.” On the right side of the screen that comes up,  go to “DISCIPLINE.” To find out the number of students receiving corporal punishment, choose from among the options on discipline – Discipline and Disability, Discipline of Students With Disabilities and Discipline of Students Without Disabilities. The latest data available is for the 2006 year.   2006 Civil Rights Data Collection contains information on 5,929 public school districts and 62,484 schools in those school districts.  Your district and school may not be among those not sampled.  You can also request a copy of your school district’s corporal punishment statistics (school building and district information) from previous years from the district board of education office.  Corporal punishment data is public information. Center for Effective Discipline    October 7, 2010