Some Pennsylvania school districts facing civil rights investigations say they haven't heard from federal officials since ...

A little-known civil rights office in the Department of Education that helps resolve complaints from students across the country about discrimination and accommodating disabilities has been gutted by ...

Should the ability to read be considered a civil right? Many people across the country would answer yes, and some say reading is, in fact, one of the most important civil-rights issues of our time. As ...

There are a lot of things 12-year-old G likes about school. She likes gym class; she likes to help other students; she likes to craft with her teacher. But when you ask what she doesn't like, G ...

Feb. 25 (UPI) --Changes are coming to the Department of Education under the Trump administration and whether it closes or is significantly downsized, its role in defending civil rights for students ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Saying the Trump administration is sabotaging civil rights ...

Many of the office’s cases over the decades have served as a catalyst for broader policy change and social reforms. By Michael C. Bender and Rachel Nostrant Reporting from Washington Decades ago, ...

The San Francisco Office for Civil Rights is closing down as part of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Department of Education. It is uncertain what will come of the backlog of the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the nation’s oldest civil rights organizations on Thursday declared a “state of emergency” for antidiscrimination policies, personal freedoms and Black economic advancement in ...

During the recent government shutdown, some Republicans in Congress have expressed sympathy for the roughly seven hundred and thirty thousand federal employees who have been performing essential ...