by kids1stadvocac | Jan 6, 2026 | Federal
The Guardian 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 | Jan 6, 2026 | Federal
The Michigan Chronicle Classrooms should be places of opportunity, not obstacles. But for many students with disabilities, especially students of color and English learners, school often reinforces the inequities it’s supposed to erase. Black students, for example,...
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...
