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The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is a sub-agency of the U.S. Department of Education that is primarily focused on enforcing civil rights laws prohibiting schools from engaging in discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, or membership in patriotic youth organizations.
The United States Department of Education is a cabinet-level department of the United States government.It began operating on May 4, 1980, having been created after the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was split into the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services by the Department of Education Organization Act, which President Jimmy Carter signed into ...
The U.S. Department of Education Office of Inspector General (ED OIG) is an Inspector General office created by the Department of Education Organization Act. [1] The Inspector General for the Department of Education is charged with investigating and auditing department programs to combat waste, fraud, and abuse. [2]
The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has opened a formal investigation into a civil rights complaint filed last week accusing Harvard of failure to protect Palestinian students and ...
The U.S. Department of Education administers federal student aid programs such as Pell Grants, direct loans and work-study programs. These initiatives help students afford to attend college and ...
Federal funding programs for K-12 schools that help support the education of students from low-income families and children with disabilities predated the creation of the Department of Education.
One year later, Clohan resigned abruptly, reportedly pushed out as a response to conservative groups' complaints that Secretary of Education Ted Bell was too moderate in his views about the future of the federal role in education. [4] [5] Clohan was replaced by Gary L. Jones, a vice president at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. [6]
The Education Department also oversees the nation’s colleges and universities, nearly all of which receive some federal funding.