A federal investigator who examines civil rights complaints against Alabama schools is the latest target of Trump ...

The Federal Office for Civil Rights is launching an investigation into Maine's Department of Education and a school district ...

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Legal experts said an Education Department letter goes much further than the actual law in limiting how schools and colleges ...

Tylisa Guyton of Taylor, Michigan, filed a complaint with the Office for Civil Rights on Jan. 20 over her 16-year-old son’s ...

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A Maine high school is under "directed investigation" after President Donald Trump clashed at a meeting with Maine's governor ...

The announcement Thursday from the HHS Office for Civil Rights marks a major shift for the division. Under former President Joe Biden, the OCR issued rules aimed at bolstering protections for ...

"While the federal Department of Education is in a transition period with the change in administrations, we call on the Office for Civil Rights to continue to enforce the legal standards that ...

The letter says the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights will “vigorously enforce” the law in preschools, K-12 schools, and higher education settings. And while the letter’s ...

Should the bill pass and be signed into law, Iowa would become the first state in the nation to remove a protected class from a state’s civil rights act, a legal expert says.