Five universities are under investigation by the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights for providing ...

Data from the Education Department show the pace at which it resolves civil rights complaints has slowed as the Trump ...

The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights Dallas hub was one of seven closed nationwide after the Trump ...

Lawsuit alleges Education Department’s civil rights office can’t fulfill duties A lawsuit filed Friday alleges the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) will no longer be capable of ...

While officials maintain the office is still protecting schoolchildren’s civil rights, the numbers tell a different story.

Federal Overhaul is a multipart series that explores the impact of the Trump administration’s restructuring of the federal ...

The office, staffed by attorneys and other experts, enforces half a dozen federal anti-discrimination laws, including Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The U.S. Department of Education investigation will determine whether the scholarships violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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 ...

The Office for Civil Rights is currently investigating five of them: Iowa, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah. As conservative commentator Ben Shapiro tweeted, if that is their standard ...

The IRS sent RIF notices to nearly 80% of staff at the Office of Civil Rights and Compliance, but kept layoffs on hold after a recent Supreme Court ruling.

The new Office of Civil Rights can be reached by phone at (804) 225-2292, or by email at [email protected]. Click here to read more about the Office of Civil Rights.