A Government Accountability Office report found that the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights dismissed about 90 percent of discrimination complaints in 2025 after the Trump administration laid off nearly half its staff. Advocates warn the cuts have left students unprotected, allowed serious cases of racial and disability discrimination to go unresolved, and cost taxpayers up to $38 million while employees were paid but barred from working.
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Education Department layoffs gut its civil rights office, leaving discrimination cases in limbo
By Collin BinkleyAP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 complaints from students and families across the nation. Among a total of more than 1,300 layoffs announced March […]
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Ringing the alarm for civil rights data in schools
The Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) is a critical tool for identifying and addressing disparities in educational access and equity in America’s schools, and advocates are fighting to protect it from being dismantled by the Trump administration.