Many of the office’s cases over the decades have served as a catalyst for broader policy change and social reforms.

The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs, ...

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced the nominations of D. John Sauer to be U.S. solicitor general, Harmeet ...

This ProPublica story, reported by Jodi S. Cohen and Jennifer Smith Richards, is being republished with permission. With a mass email sharing what it called “difficult news,” the U.S. Department of ...

The ambiguity of the president’s warning could pave the way for lawsuits. It also could be damaging, critics say, if it has ...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights had its lease in downtown Cleveland terminated this week.

The Education Department has cut its workforce ... leaders and elected officials on what states and local districts will do to ensure that civil rights of students are protected and that Title ...