The Trump administration is subverting the traditional priorities of the department’s decimated civil rights office by making ...

The Equal Protection Project, Defending Education, and Do No Harm are three groups behind a number of the complaints filed under Title VI and Title IX of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibit ...

There were 600 open investigations in New England when Trump took office, roughly half of which are in Massachusetts.

Civil rights and immigrant advocates are seeking a preliminary injunction to restore three DHS oversight offices closed by ...

The Trump administration’s budget proposal includes a $49 million reduction from OCR and does not meet appropriators’ desired ...

In his second term, Trump revoked a landmark 1965 executive order mandating equal employment opportunities for all, slashed ...

The federal agency tasked with protecting workers’ civil rights has moved to terminate a New York administrative judge who ...

Catherine E. Lhamon, who served as the head of the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights under Presidents Barack Obama and Joseph R. Biden Jr., disputed that. Her office conducted ...

The U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights investigates discrimination in schools. It recently lost more than 40% of its staff. Families say school civil rights investigations have ...