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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 ...
Between March 11 and June 27, 2025, the Education Department‘s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) dismissed 3,424 complaints — an ...
In an email to alums this afternoon, Gregory Washington, president of George Mason University, reported the school is now under investigation by the federal Department of Education's Office for Civil ...
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it had launched an investigation into GMU ...
The department honed in on a policy by the Department of Human Services requiring managers to provide justification for ...
Since taking office Jan. 20, President Donald Trump has issued executive orders that forced businesses, schools, universities ...
The complaint and investigation data show the toll of mass layoffs, advocates argue. The department says OCR “is vigorously ...
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 ...
A Trump administration probe of Harvard University found the school violated the civil rights of Jewish and Israeli students.
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.