Education Department layoffs gut its civil rights office, leaving discrimination cases in limbo
The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs, ...
Massive layoffs at the Department of Education erode its civil rights division
The Office for Civil Rights, through regional offices, investigated complaints against schools about discrimination, ...
Maddow Blog | Ignoring public opinion, Trump administration starts gutting Education Department
As a matter of policy and politics, the Trump administration is inviting a backlash by dramatically reducing the Department ...
The Education Department was created to ensure equal access. Who would do that in its absence?
As the Trump administration moves to dismantle the Education Department, officials have suggested other agencies could take ...
3 Washington colleges get warning from Dept. of Education
Three Washington universities have been sent letters by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), ...
Education Department buildings to shut down for ‘security reasons’
Workers won’t be allowed in offices for any reason, the memo said. The only explanation given for the closure was unspecified ...