On March 20, 2025 President Trump signed a long-anticipated Executive Order titled Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities that directs the Secretary of Education to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the...
On March 10, 2025, the Department of Education (ED) announced that it sent letters to 60 colleges and universities “warning them of potential enforcement actions if they do not fulfill their obligations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to protect Jewish students...
On March 5, 2025, the Attorneys General of Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and the District of Columbia issued Joint Guidance regarding the Department...
On Friday, February 14, 2025, the Department of Education issued a Title VI Dear Colleague Letter that focused on the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. The letter explained ED’s current interpretation that “[a]lthough SFFA...
In what seems like a last-minute scramble to tie up loose ends, the Department of Education has published a number of materials in a very short timeframe. New documents include resources on retaliation and resolving hostile environments under Title VI. Since...
In November 2024, the Department of Education issued a new document: “Frequently Asked Privacy-Related Questions About Filing a Complaint with OCR.” The title is apt, and the document attempts to address the questions commonly received by OCR concerning how the...
