by kids1stadvocac | Dec 16, 2025 | Federal
Hechinger Report Within the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is a small office devoted to educational issues, including seclusion, as well as desegregation and racial harassment. The division intentionally chooses cases with potential for high impact and...
by kids1stadvocac | Dec 9, 2025 | Federal
Titled “Get the Facts: Students’ Rights are Unconditional,” Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE) has published a new issue brief in response to state and federal bills being proposed that run counter to trans student rights. This brief shifts the...
by kids1stadvocac | Nov 11, 2025 | Federal
In response to the federal government’s current lack of support for the disparate impact framework, the Legal Defense Fund, Democracy Forward, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and the National Institute for Workers’ Rights have released...
by kids1stadvocac | Nov 11, 2025 | Federal
Education Week In Pennsylvania, state Sen. Lindsey Williams, a Democrat from the Pittsburgh area, said her office has heard from families with complaints pending before the Education Department, and school districts in the middle of OCR investigations, that haven’t...
by kids1stadvocac | Oct 21, 2025 | Federal
In support of National Disability Employment Awareness Month, Ranking Member Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (D-VA) hosted a virtual civil rights forum with disability rights leaders to discuss the impacts of the Administration’s “attacks” on disabled Americans. In his...
