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The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to allow mass layoffs in the Department of Education will further stall pending cases.
One of the nation’s oldest civil rights organizations on Thursday declared a “state of emergency” for antidiscrimination ...
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it had launched an investigation into GMU ...
Between March 11 and June 27, 2025, the Education Department‘s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) dismissed 3,424 complaints — an ...
The department honed in on a policy by the Department of Human Services requiring managers to provide justification for ...
The complaint and investigation data show the toll of mass layoffs, advocates argue. The department says OCR “is vigorously ...
The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to proceed with 1,400 Education Department layoffs.
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 ...
Trump administration notifies Harvard of alleged civil rights violations A letter from the administration’s Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism threatens all federal funding to the school.
A senior Homeland Security official says the offices established to protect against abuse were cut because they are "roadblocks' to enforcement.
These cases are among the 12,000 civil rights complaints that were pending at the US Department of Education when President Trump took office in January.
A Trump administration investigation has found that Harvard University violated federal civil rights law by failing to protect Jewish students on campus. The finding puts the school at risk of ...