The administration is prioritizing allegations that transgender students and students of color are getting unfair advantages ...

Laid-off Office for Civil Rights staff have been put on administrative leave since March. Schaefer states that staff will continue to receive their salary and benefits. This is costing the department ...

In June, Joun ordered the department to stop the terminations of employees in the Office for Civil Rights so that it could ...

Lawsuit alleges Education Department’s civil rights office can’t fulfill duties A lawsuit filed Friday alleges the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) will no longer be capable of ...

It’s been more than a month and a half since a federal judge ordered Education Secretary Linda McMahon to put Office for ...

Advocates for families with disabilities anticipate a pivot away from the federal route for discrimination complaint ...

Recent and current staff members of the Office for Civil Rights describe an operation in disarray since the Trump administration assumed control on Jan. 20 — with discrimination cases being ...

The judge also said a high court ruling allowing layoffs at the Education Department shouldn't affect a separate case on ...

The 2015 Dear Colleague letter detailed how schools and districts can comply with federal requirements in English-learner ...

A federal district court judge refused the Trump administration’s request to vacate a previous ruling that prohibited the ...

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 is currently investigating five of them: Iowa, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah. As conservative commentator Ben Shapiro tweeted, if that is their standard ...