When Rebecca, a 48-year-old mother from Michigan, needed help for her disabled son, she turned to the US Department of ...

One of many hypothetical questions resulting from a nonexistent DOE is what students and institutions would do without the ...

Only five of the agency’s civil rights offices remain nationwide. Those who are still with the department say it will now be ...

The Trump administration said its sweeping cuts would eliminate bloat at the department. Staff say the “chaotic” process has ...

The Washington Parents Network on Friday called for a national investigation into the Seattle Office of Civil Rights within ...

Though Rebecca had a private lawyer and an education advocate, an OCR lawyer in the Cleveland office was facilitating mediation with the school district as soon as April. But before that could ...

The Education Department launched an investigation into Portland, Oregon, public schools for allowing a transgender athletes ...

On March 18th, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) opened a Title VI Shared Ancestry ...

The details remain unclear, but reports suggest that staffs at six of the 12 regional OCR offices were laid off. Because of the office’s role in enforcing civil rights laws in schools and universities ...

The Department of Education Office for Civil Rights has opened an investigation into Barnard for discrimination involving shared ancestry. The OCR published its investigation announcement on “List of ...

OCR is also investigating six other institutions for “impermissible race-based scholarships” and one university for ...