Ed. Dept. dismissed 90 percent of discrimination cases, report says

Ed. Dept. dismissed 90 percent of discrimination cases, report says

The Education Department's Office of Civil Rights dismissed nearly every discrimination complaint last year due to mass layoffs, according to a government watchdog report.

Trump Administration Slashed Staff, Gutted Education Department's Civil Rights Office

The Education Department office responsible for protecting the rights of marginalized and minority students in the nation’s K-12 public schools dismissed nearly every discrimination complaint it received last year, due to the Trump administration’s massive reduction in force, according to a new government watchdog report.  At the same time, the Government Accountability Office found that the administration’s attempt to lay off about half of the …

90% of Student Discrimination and Harassment Complaints were Dismissed Last Year. Here’s Why.

President Donald Trump’s efforts to dismantle the Department of Education has created a crisis that critics long feared: leaving marginalized students vulnerable to misconduct with little federal intervention. A new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a nonpartisan arm of Congress, paints a damning picture of how mass layoffs and the slashing of resources at the agency have significantly impacted the civil rights of students. T…

The Government Cut Its Civil Rights Enforcement in Half and Called It “Efficiency”

The Legal Defense Fund recently called upon the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights to properly enforce civil rights protections.  Released as a press release, the Senior Policy Counsel, Hamida Labi, appealed to the OCR to address the findings of a new Government Accountability Office report. In the report, the federal agency revealed that the OCR cut its department in half, placing half of the 575 employees on paid administrative …