About 600 of the Education Department’s roughly 4,000 employees work in the OCR, either at the Washington headquarters or one of 12 regional offices. At least 74 department employees ...

The U.S. Office for Civil Rights, or OCR, enforces federal civil rights laws in schools and any other entity that receives funding from the Department of Education. Nationally, there are about ...

Since President Donald Trump took office, federal paths toward strengthening students’ civil rights have been severely ...

The Trump Education Department's Office for Civil Rights is initiating investigations into violations ignored by the Biden ...