by kids1stadvocac | Apr 15, 2025 | Federal
On April 10, 2025 multiple parents and students, including COPAA members, from various states across the country have joined a federal lawsuit that seeks to restore the functions of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and reverse...
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...
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...
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...
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...
