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Federal education department office in Philadelphia is among seven to be shut nationally
The Office for Civil Rights closure came as the Trump administration announced layoffs for nearly half of Department of Education employees.
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Civil rights groups say push to dismantle Education Department will undo hard-won gains
By doing so, he reopened a debate in the fight over the federal government’s role in education policy. Civil rights advocates ...
Education Department layoffs gut its civil rights office, leaving discrimination cases in limbo
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 ...