In light of the updated protocol presented by Tennessee, OCR announced that it closed the complaint against the state without any finding of liability. The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced in ...

In a highly anticipated decision earlier this month, OCR reaffirmed the broad discretion that religious institutions may have under the religious exemption in Title IX. Title IX provides that “no ...

A conservative legal advocacy group has filed a complaint against Indiana University with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) for maintaining at least 19 race-based ...

Harvard quietly agreed last week to resolve a 2024 federal complaint alleging the University failed to protect students from anti-Arab, anti-Muslim, and anti-Palestinian harassment and intimidation.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some days, Mollie McGuire wondered if her then 7-year-old son was dying. The wide-eyed boy, who once raced off to school, came ...

On July 18, 2022, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released its revised Case Processing Manual (CPM), which was last updated in August 2020. The CPM outlines the ...

The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has ramped up investigations in the last year as more individuals and organizations have filed complaints about disability, sex or pregnancy ...

A Wisconsin district that discriminated against a nonbinary student was ordered to offer grade adjustments and training to staff and students. A Georgia district that removed books about LGBTQ+ ...

The University at Buffalo takes its responsibilities on the issue of sexual assaults on campus very seriously. Nothing is more important than the safety and welfare of our students. On May 12, the ...

IOWA CITY — The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights has signed a voluntary resolution with the University of Iowa over a 2015 complaint about gender discrimination in athletics, ...