Rutgers President William Tate IV announced he is opening an Office of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity amid federal ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs, effectively gutting an office that already faced a backlog of ...
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.
Trump’s new plan to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education could put students’ civil rights at risk. Here’s what it means ...
Trump administration secures major agreement requiring Northwestern to implement antisemitism training and protect Jewish students from harassment.
A new law, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last month, creates an Office of Civil Rights within the California Department of ...
Last week, the Trump administration announced a number of new actions aimed at dismantling the Department of Education, a ...
The federal government has launched a civil rights probe into Harvard University’s use of legacy admissions, the U.S. Department of Education said Tuesday, increasing pressure on universities already ...
The U.S. first had a federal education department in 1867 — not 1979. Its history is critical in understanding the federal ...
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with former education secretary John King about the changes at the U.S. Department of Education this week.
It’s not just a layer of bureaucracy. It is the backbone of civil rights enforcement in America’s schools. | Opinion ...