
Esquire - 2 hours 59 min ago
Its civil rights division is moving to the DOJ, where it will be definitely given high priority. Meanwhile, Senator Roadkill J. Brainworm is now in charge of special education.

Slate - 4 hours 15 min ago
Test your wits on the Slate Quiz for June 17, 2026.

NPR - 5 hours 30 min ago
The Trump administration says it is moving some of the Education Department's most important responsibilities, including oversight of special education and student civil rights, to other agencies.

The Independent - 6 hours 30 min ago
These transfers mean that the bulk of the Education Department's functions have now been distributed across various other agencies...

ABC News - 7 hours 49 min ago
President Donald Trump's administration is further dismantling the Department of Education, moving oversight of special education and civil rights to other agencies...

New York Times - 12 hours 16 min ago
"It is race discrimination, pure and simple. And it is illegal," said Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general overseeing the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division.

New York Times - 14 hours 1 min ago
Penny Brown Reynolds, a former judge and senior civil rights official in the Biden administration.

The Independent - 14 hours 40 min ago
The Education Department is transferring oversight of special education and civil rights to other agencies...

The Independent - 14 hours 43 min ago
The Trump administration is helping one of Elon Musk's companies fight a civil rights lawsuit that alleges it is illegally running dozens of natural gas turbines to power a $20 billion data center in Mississippi...

ABC News - 14 hours 46 min ago
The Trump administration is helping one of Elon Musk's companies fight a civil rights lawsuit that alleges it is illegally running dozens of natural gas turbines to power a $20 billion data center in Mississippi...

The Hill - 16 hours 29 min ago
{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story Trump asks to toss NAACP pollution suit against xAI The Trump administration is intervening on behalf of Elon Musk's xAI after the NAACP accused it in court of illegally polluting the air of a Memphis-area community. AP Photo/Markus Schreiber In April, the civil rights organization alleged that...

ABC News - 16 hours 56 min ago
It's the latest step by the Trump administration to dismantle the agency.

Mother Jones - 17 hours 6 min ago
We tend to treat disability politics as a modern phenomenon, the product of disability civil rights movements in the latter part of the 20th century. It’s not: the long arc of that history, in fact, goes back to the American Revolution, whose new ideas promised some disabled white Americans an unprecedented level of inclusion and to […]...

Mother Jones - 17 hours 16 min ago
On Tuesday, the Trump administration announced that it would move two key functions of the Department of Education disability education oversight and the department’s Office for Civil Rights to the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice, respectively, in a move that would give HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. oversight over the […]...

NY Post - 17 hours 22 min ago
President Donald Trump's administration is further dismantling the Education Department, moving oversight of special education and civil rights to other agencies.

The Independent - 17 hours 47 min ago
These transfers mean that the bulk of the Education Department's functions have now been distributed across various other agencies...

UPI - 18 hours 48 min ago
The Department of Education will shift two of its major departments, civil rights and special education programs, to other government agencies.

The Hill - 19 hours 8 min ago
The Trump administration on Tuesday announced that special education and civil rights oversight would no longer be helmed by the Department of Education. Instead, the Department of Justice (DOJ) will now handle civil rights enforcement and student privacy protection while the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) takes over special education initiatives for students...

New York Times - 20 hours 29 min ago
The Education Department will also shift duties for its Office for Civil Rights, which for decades has enforced anti-discrimination laws related to school children, to the Justice Department.

NPR - 21 hours 6 min ago
The moves to the federal departments of Health and Human Services and Justice, respectively, would further dismantle an agency that President Donald Trump has vowed to close.

Fox News - 21 hours 35 min ago
Fifty years after IDEA became law, new federal partnerships aim to improve special education programs and bolster civil rights protections for children.

The Hill - 22 hours 49 min ago
The Trump administration is intervening on behalf of Elon Musk's xAI after the NAACP accused it in court of illegally polluting the air of a Memphis-area community. In April, the civil rights organization alleged that xAI did not get an air pollution permit for its Colossus Gas Plant, which powers its Colossus 2 data center that in...