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Federal Overhaul is a multipart series that explores the impact of the Trump administration’s restructuring of the federal ...
While officials maintain the office is still protecting schoolchildren’s civil rights, the numbers tell a different story.
The office, staffed by attorneys and other experts, enforces half a dozen federal anti-discrimination laws, including Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to allow mass layoffs in the Department of Education will further stall pending cases.
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 Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights first opened its investigation into antisemitism at Columbia on Feb. 3, citing President Donald Trump’s Jan. 29 executive order. The department ...
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 ...
The new Office of Civil Rights can be reached by phone at (804) 225-2292, or by email at [email protected]. Click here to read more about the Office of Civil Rights.