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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.
Between March 11 and June 27, 2025, the Education Department‘s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) dismissed 3,424 complaints — an ...
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it had launched an investigation into GMU ...
One of the nation’s oldest civil rights organizations on Thursday declared a “state of emergency” for antidiscrimination ...
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 ...
The department honed in on a policy by the Department of Human Services requiring managers to provide justification for ...
Harvard’s public pledges to improve its disciplinary framework for harassment and misconduct are inadequate to meaningfully address these serious findings,” HHS Office for Civil Rights Director Paula ...
A letter from the administration’s Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism to Harvard’s president, Alan Garber, said an investigation by the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of ...
The investigation was completed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights, and its findings outline the violations it says occurred on the Cambridge, Mass ...
The U.S. Department of Education says California violated the civil rights of students by allowing transgender students to compete in school sports according to their gender identity.