Laid-off Office for Civil Rights staff have been put on administrative leave since March. Schaefer states that the staff will ...

It’s the first time the agency—which has been under court orders to reinstate staff—has said it will actually bring laid-off employees back.

The administration is prioritizing allegations that transgender students and students of color are getting unfair advantages ...

The 2015 Dear Colleague letter detailed how schools and districts can comply with federal requirements in English-learner ...

George Mason University has been found in violation of federal civil rights laws, the U.S. Department of Education announced ...

It’s been more than a month and a half since a federal judge ordered Education Secretary Linda McMahon to put Office for ...

Denver Public Schools has confirmed that one of its high schools, which previously converted a girls' restroom into an ...

The Department of Education said Fairfax-based George Mason University violated federal civil rights law by using race in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...

Five universities are under investigation by the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights for providing scholarships to undocumented immigrants enrolled in the Obama-era DACA program ...

None of it worked. On March 21, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem shut down the office and fired most of the 150-person staff. As a result, about 600 civil rights abuse investigations were frozen.