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  "id": "2000-december-equity",
  "slug": "2000-december-equity",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/2000-december-equity.html",
  "year": 2000,
  "month": "December",
  "monthNum": 12,
  "headline": "Equity",
  "kicker": "",
  "author_name": "Mike Fish",
  "author_title": "Reporter",
  "affiliation": "Atlanta Journal-Constitution",
  "summary": "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution conducted a comprehensive investigation into gender equity in Georgia high school athletics by analyzing education department civil rights cases, surveying coaches and administrators, and obtaining financial and participation data from the Georgia High School Association.",
  "keywords": [
    "athletics",
    "investigation",
    "gender"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Education",
    "Data & Databases",
    "Investigative Methods"
  ],
  "technologies": [],
  "full_text": "application forms to determine how the money was allocated by sport and gender.\n\nThe newspaper also obtained from the U.S. Department of Education an electronic copy of every civil rights case filed since 1985 involving an education institution. The information was split into two databases and coded. With some programming, the databases were merged, the codes were turned into English and the results were posted on ajc.com in a searchable form.\n\nSeparate mail surveys were sent to all (more than 3,500) varsity high school coaches in Georgia, to 323 principals, 180 superintendents and to the 39 members of the Georgia High School Association, asking about budgets, participation rates, their teaching and coaching backgrounds, athletic facilities and gender issues.\n\nNinety-three percent of superintendents, 92 percent of executive committee members, 67 percent of the principals and more than 26 percent of the coaches participated. For some of the surveying, the newspaper worked in cooperation with sports researchers at Georgia State University.\n\nThe newspaper also developed a survey form that was sent to each of the state high school and activities associations in the country, and it polled the 46 private schools in Georgia that are members of the Georgia High School Association.\n\nFinally, the newspaper obtained access to the Georgia High School Association's financial records for the past five years, and it obtained in electronic form the GHSA's 1998-1999 athletic participation survey for every sport at every high school, broken down by gender. The association initially resisted providing the data, but complied after its attorney concluded the GHSA would lose an open-records case if it went to court. The data was converted to a searchable form and included among the offerings on ajc.com.\n\nMike Fish can be reached by e-mail at mfish@ajc.com.",
  "provenance": {
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    "extracted_at": "2026-07-05",
    "verified": true
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