Between March 11 and June 27, 2025, the Education Department‘s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) dismissed 3,424 complaints — an ...

Thousands of civil rights complaints were dismissed by the Department of Education. The agency confirmed the dismissals in a ...

The department honed in on a policy by the Department of Human Services requiring managers to provide justification for ...

The San Francisco Office for Civil Rights is closing down as part of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Department of Education. It is uncertain what will come of the backlog of the ...

The complaint and investigation data show the toll of mass layoffs, advocates argue. The department says OCR “is vigorously ...

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Education that enforces civil rights laws tied to federal funding of schools from elementary through post-secondary.

The Office for Civil Rights, an arm of the Education Department, saw complaints rise to the highest level ever last year, according to its recently released annual report.

The top Democrat on the House Education Committee urged the Office for Civil Rights to root out vestiges of discrimination after a Supreme Court ruling banning the use of race in college admissions.

The U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights investigates discrimination in schools. It recently lost more than 40% of its staff.

The Office for Civil Rights in Education is an arm of the administrative state that has often inflamed the culture wars in the last decade. So it was only a matter of time before it jumped into ...

This attrition has continued in the Office for Civil Rights across Republican and Democratic administrations: from 1981 to 2016, the full-time staff shrank from 1,099 to 563, even as civil-rights ...

"Five Areas Where The Office For Civil Rights Can Improve Its Proposed Changes To HIPAA, And Advance Interoperability", Health Affairs Blog, May 19, 2021 . DOI: 10.1377/hblog20210514.54051 ...