A memo to the department’s Office for Civil Rights reveals that the agency will allow “only disability-based discrimination” ...

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

President Donald Trump is downsizing a federal office that he's also using to carry out his policy agenda for schools.

Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, ...

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

The organizations claimed that the president had exceeded his authority in issuing the orders, and that they intentionally ...

As Trump began to reshape the Education Department, investigations and mediations around disability rights issues came to a ...

Some staffers were instructed by their supervisors to halt external communications.

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal office that enforces civil rights at schools across the U.S. has been ordered to prioritize complaints of antisemitism above all else as it molds to President Donald ...