The [Department of Education]'s chief responsibility is to ensure that all students have equal access to education. However, its Office for Civil Rights dismissed roughly 90 percent of the more than 9,000 new complaints of discrimination based on race, sex, disability and age it received from March to September 2025, the [Government Accountability Office] found."
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Students with disabilities and survivors of sexual misconduct can’t rely on the Department of Education — the target of budget cuts and staff reductions — to intervene for them, new reports find.
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Grant Guidelines for Libraries and Museums Take “Chilling” Political Turn Under Trump
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