Jazmyne Owens interviews GeDá Jones Herbert on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and its impacts on civil rights protections and enforcement in public schools.

The US Department of Education has begun a civil rights investigation into whether Harvard University discriminates in its admissions process by giving preferential treatment to children of wealthy ...

People protest outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., while the Supreme Court is considering whether school districts in Seattle and Louisville, Kentucky, are violating the U.S. Constitution ...

At least 50 employees are departing the Chicago office of the U.S. Department of Education, nearly all through layoffs announced by the Trump administration, according to documents sent to union ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration insists it hasn’t wavered in its duty to protect the civil rights of America’s children even as it dismantles the Education Department. Yet its own data ...

Several civil rights groups asked the U.S. Department of Education this week to investigate whether youths incarcerated at the new juvenile lockup at Angola are receiving adequate educational ...

Last month, Georgia’s Forsyth School District entered into a voluntary resolution agreement with the Biden Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), concluding a federal investigation ...