A Texas student was kneed in the face by a school cop: Her civil rights case is one of thousands that may never be resolved

by kids1stadvocac | Apr 1, 2025 | Federal

The 74 After a campus police officer grabbed student Ja’Liyah Celestine by the hair and kneed her in the face, she filed a federal civil rights complaint that alleged persistent racial discrimination against Black teens at her Texas high...

Report Finds Millions of Students Left with No Civil Rights Protections

by kids1stadvocac | Apr 1, 2025 | Federal

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Ranking Member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee released a report highlighting the impacts of recent firings at the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on students who rely on OCR to...

AL: Alabama parents sue over cuts to education civil rights office: ‘Discriminatory and unsafe’

by kids1stadvocac | Mar 18, 2025 | State

al.com Alabama parents are leading a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education over recent cuts to the Office for Civil Rights, which investigates alleged abuses in local schools. The lawsuit, filed March 14, claims school civil rights investigations have been...

PA: With DOE’s Office of Civil Rights depleted, a lawsuit seeks to continue discrimination investigations in schools

by kids1stadvocac | Mar 18, 2025 | State

The Philadelphia Inquirer With its workforce slashed and most of its regional offices — including one in Philadelphia — now shuttered, the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has effectively halted investigating issues of sex-, race-, and...

NCYL and COPAA File Federal Lawsuit Against ED for Failing to Investigate Civil Rights Complaints

by kids1stadvocac | Mar 18, 2025 | Federal

The National Center for Youth Law (NCYL) and the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates (COPAA) filed a federal lawsuit yesterday on behalf of students and families across the country that seeks to reverse the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil...