Education Department paid laid-off OCR staff $38M while dismissing most complaints

A GAO report found the agency did not document the financial trade-offs associated with its RIFs and cannot prove the cuts ...

The Education Department's efforts to fire staff cost over $28 million, watchdog says

A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office calculates the cost of efforts to fire civil rights staff and ...
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Complaint filed against Indiana University for "pervasive" race-based scholarships

A conservative legal advocacy group has filed a complaint against Indiana University with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) for maintaining at least 19 race-based ...
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How Cutting Education Department Could Harm Jewish Students

As the future of the Department of Education remains in flux, the closing of the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) within the DOE is warned to have wider ramifications on the federal court system and the ...
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OCR Dismisses LGBTQ+ Complaint Based on Title IX Religious Exemption

In a highly anticipated decision earlier this month, OCR reaffirmed the broad discretion that religious institutions may have under the religious exemption in Title IX. Title IX provides that “no ...
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Harvard Quietly Resolves Anti-Palestinian Discrimination Complaint With Ed. Department

Harvard quietly agreed last week to resolve a 2024 federal complaint alleging the University failed to protect students from anti-Arab, anti-Muslim, and anti-Palestinian harassment and intimidation.