Education Department Sued Over Cuts to Civil Rights Office
A new lawsuit argues that recent layoffs undermine the office’s ability to investigate complaints of discrimination from all ...
New lawsuit alleges Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights cannot fulfill responsibilities after cuts
A lawsuit filed on Friday alleges the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) is unable to fulfill its ...
Trump Firings Gut Education Department’s Civil Rights Division
Many of the office’s cases over the decades have served as a catalyst for broader policy change and social reforms.
‘Students will suffer harm’: Education Department’s civil rights office gutted by layoffs, closures
The Education Department’s civil rights office has been among the hardest hit by layoffs, with the Trump administration ...
Big cuts at the Education Department’s civil rights office will affect vulnerable students for years to come
The layoffs further complicate staffing shortages at the Office for Civil Rights, which plays a vital role in promoting a ...
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Q&A: What DEI, DBE changes mean for Minnesota contractors
Colette Holt, a lawyer with decades of experience in government contracting, DBE and other affirmative-action programs, talks ...
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From the Archives: The Fight to Racially Integrate the US Construction Industry
The structure of the U.S. construction industry in 1960 could be compared to a stone-walled bastion. Union locals had ...
Trump administration's potential sale of historic civil rights site sparks outrage
The Trump administration's recent publication of a list identifying over 400 federal properties for potential closure or sale ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch4d
Trump’s mass layoffs hurt workers and the public, say fired employees at Florissant rally
FLORISSANT — Federal ... North Highway 67 on Saturday, March 8, 2025, in protest of mass layoffs and planned firings of federal civil service workers by President Donald Trump’s administration.
At Selma’s civil rights anniversary, fears rise about the way forward
Worried about the future, marchers crossed the Edmund Pettis Bridge on Sunday in the 60th commemoration of one of the most ...
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Congress must end legalized theft on US highways
Lara prefers a different description “highway robbery ... Drug Enforcement Administration anyway. Lara fought back on two fronts. He contested the civil forfeiture in federal court and ...
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Civil Rights
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 thousands of ...