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

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

The Education Department has dismissed civil rights complaints at such a rapid rate that it's raising concerns.

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 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 ...

Ken Marcus, who led the department’s civil rights office under President George W. Bush and during Trump’s first term, said that the staff reductions could result in fewer cases being pursued.

Complaints about George Mason University allegedly discriminating against white faculty prompted the U.S. Department of ...

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

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.

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 ...

On his second day in office, President Donald Trump labeled O.F.C.C.P.’s efforts to enforce the 1964 Civil Rights Act illegal ...

"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 ...