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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration insists it hasn’t wavered in its duty to protect the civil rights of America’s ...
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 ...
Among a total of more than 1,300 layoffs announced Tuesday were roughly 240 in the department’s Office for Civil Rights, according to a list obtained and verified by The Associated Press. Seven ...
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 ...
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 National Urban League's annual State of Black America report accuses the federal government of being “increasingly ...
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 ...
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 ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights is known best for enforcing the right to disability services across America’s schools. But under President Donald Trump ...
"Five Areas Where The Office For Civil Rights Can Improve Its Proposed Changes To HIPAA, And Advance Interoperability", Health Affairs Blog, May 19, 2021 . DOI: 10.1377/hblog20210514.54051 ...