U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono, a Hawaiʻi Democrat, joined several Democrats in urging the U.S. Department of Education to reverse ...

The U.S. Department of Education dismissed the vast majority of discrimination complaints it received — likely including many based on disability — all while spending millions in an effort to fire ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A US flag and an Education Department flag fly outside the building of the US Department of Education on February 4, in Washington ...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is bringing back dozens of Education Department staffers who were slated to be laid off, saying their help is needed to tackle a mounting backlog of ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - The Department of Education Office for Civil Rights is responsible for investigating and enforcing federal civil rights law in American schools. In 2024 alone, they fielded ...

The U.S. Education Department is bringing back hundreds of employees in its Office for Civil Rights who were placed on paid administrative leave earlier this year, according to a Dec. 5 email to those ...

The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights has received a complaint against UC Berkeley over allegations that five campus programs constitute racial discrimination and thereby violate ...

As members of the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights Alumni Collective, a group of former ED-OCR career civil servants, lawyers and managers who served under both Democratic and ...

Pennsylvania lawmakers and state civil rights officials are racing to fill a hole left by the U.S. Department of Education ...

A little-known civil rights office in the Department of Education that helps resolve complaints from students across the country about discrimination and accommodating disabilities has been gutted by ...