Between March 11 and June 27, 2025, the Education Department‘s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) dismissed 3,424 complaints — an ...

When student Hanaan Kazia first heard about the federal civil rights probe into George Mason University, she wasn’t surprised ...

Nearly four months after the Office for Civil Rights closed, one parent says she still hasn't heard from anyone about her ...

The complaint and investigation data show the toll of mass layoffs, advocates argue. The department says OCR “is vigorously ...

The department honed in on a policy by the Department of Human Services requiring managers to provide justification for ...

Eleven leading education research organizations are calling on the U.S. Department of Education to take immediate action to finalize the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) for the 2025-26 school year ...

The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs, effectively gutting an office that already faced a backlog of thousands of ...

The Office for Civil Rights in Education is an arm of the administrative state that has often inflamed the culture wars in the last decade. So it was only a matter of time before it jumped into ...

They reframed their work as less about protecting civil rights and more about keeping the department out of legal trouble. None of it worked. On March 21, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem shut down the ...

The Department of Homeland Security on Friday eliminated numerous civil rights offices, ending oversight of its immigration policies and avenues for public complaints. The department said it was ...

On his second day in office, President Donald Trump labeled O.F.C.C.P.’s efforts to enforce the 1964 Civil Rights Act illegal ...

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