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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.
On May 13, 2021, President Joe Biden announced his intention to nominate Lhamon for a second term as assistant secretary for civil rights at the Department of Education. [24] The nomination was submitted to the Senate on the same day and referred to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. The committee deadlocked on an ...
Under Secretary of Education: Vacant Assistant Secretary of Education (Legislation and Congressional Affairs) Peter Oppenheim: December 1, 2017 June 12, 2019 Assistant Secretary of Education (Civil Rights) Kenneth L. Marcus [5] August 6, 2018 (Confirmed June 7, 2018, 50–46) [6] July 31, 2020 Director of the Institute of Education Sciences ...
The Department’s Office for Civil Rights is opening the investigation under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which protects students from harassment based on their national origin and ...
The federal government has launched a civil rights probe into Harvard University’s use of legacy admissions, the U.S. Department of Education said Tuesday, increasing pressure on universities ...
Candice Erin Jackson [3] (born March 9, 1978) [4] [1] is an American lawyer and former government official from California.She served in the Trump administration as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Strategic Operations and Outreach in the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department of Education, and the Office's Acting Assistant Secretary from April 2017 to July 2018. [2]
Kenneth L. Marcus is an American attorney, academic, and government official. He is the founder and leader of the Brandeis Center.He was the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the United States Department of Education from August 6, 2018 through July 9, 2020, after which he resumed his position at the Brandeis Center.
More than 400 LGBTQ and civil rights groups on Monday urged lawmakers to reject legislation that would bar transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports, claiming the measure, which the ...