The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to allow mass layoffs in the Department of Education will further stall pending cases.

Between March 11 and June 27, 2025, the Education Department‘s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) dismissed 3,424 complaints — an ...

The National Urban League's annual State of Black America report accuses the federal government of being “increasingly ...

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 ...

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it had launched an investigation into GMU ...

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 honed in on a policy by the Department of Human Services requiring managers to provide justification for ...

The Office for Civil Rights in Education is an arm of the administrative state that has often inflamed the culture wars in the last decade. So it was only a matter of time before it jumped into ...

They reframed their work as less about protecting civil rights and more about keeping the department out of legal trouble. None of it worked. On March 21, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem shut down the ...

The Department of Homeland Security on Friday eliminated numerous civil rights offices, ending oversight of its immigration policies and avenues for public complaints. The department said it was ...

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