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...
by kids1stadvocac | Mar 18, 2025 | Federal
Education Week Parents whose discrimination complaints have gone unresolved and have been further delayed are suing the U.S. Department of Education over its mass layoffs, which cut deeply into the agency’s civil rights investigation arm. The lawsuit—filed in federal...
by kids1stadvocac | Mar 11, 2025 | State
ABC7 NEWS Anacostia mother Andrea Jones said she had to fight D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) to get help for her son, who has autism spectrum disorder. “It was a lot of him just not being able to obtain the academics that he was entitled to,” she told 7News. Jones said...
by kids1stadvocac | Feb 18, 2025 | Federal
ProPublica In the three-and-a-half weeks since Donald Trump returned to the presidency, investigations by the agency that handles allegations of civil rights violations in the nation’s schools and colleges have ground to a halt. At the same time, there’s been a...
by kids1stadvocac | Feb 4, 2025 | Federal
Last week, Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor issued a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) announcing that effective immediately, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) will revert to the provisions of the 2020 Title IX Rule...
