The appointee for assistant secretary of the Office for Civil Rights most recently worked as an education official in Florida ...

On February 14, 2025, the United States Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued guidance clarifying how the Department ...

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

In late December 2024, the Office of Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“OCR”) issued a notice of proposed ...

The Education Department has never withheld funds as the result of a civil rights investigation. Will that remain true?

The investigation alleges the district continues to violate Title IX by allowing a male to compete in girls’ athletics.

Some of the 266 open civil rights investigations into Indiana's schools could lay dormant for years under a new Trump administration policy.

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 ...

While OCR specifically mentioned admissions and hiring practices, there's confusion over what other programming in K-12 is ...

The investigation comes after the evaluation of a civil complaint filed to the DOE over the participation of a transgender ...

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