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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 ...
When student Hanaan Kazia first heard about the federal civil rights probe into George Mason University, she wasn't surprised ...
The US Education Department has been reduced to half its size under President Trump, with over 1,300 staff laid off. Despite ...
The National Urban League has declared a "state of emergency" over civil rights policies in response to the Trump ...
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 ...
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 ...
Brané said she believes roughly 200 people lost their jobs in what she called "Black Friday" cuts. "They're eliminating all the oversight bodies within the Department of Homeland Security at a ...