Five universities are under investigation by the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights for providing ...

Applicants could receive as many as 10 points for writing about how their “membership in an underrepresented group” would “lend itself to …  promoting diverse voices,” the ...

The letter to Duke University leadership asks the school to create a "Merit and Civil Rights Committee” that would work with the federal government to investigate the civil rights violation ...

Federal Overhaul is a multipart series that explores the impact of the Trump administration’s restructuring of the federal ...

While officials maintain the office is still protecting schoolchildren’s civil rights, the numbers tell a different story.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration insists it hasn’t wavered in its duty to protect the civil rights of America’s ...

The U.S. Department of Education investigation will determine whether the scholarships violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to allow mass layoffs in the Department of Education will further stall pending cases.

Between March 11 and June 27, 2025, the Education Department‘s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) dismissed 3,424 complaints — an unusually high number that has alarmed former officials and advocates amid ...

Civil rights enforcement and investigations scale back The department’s Office for Civil Rights has also seen significant ...

In a statement, HHS said its Office for Civil Rights found the university violated federal civil rights laws by “acting with deliberate indifference towards student-on-student harassment of ...