by Nadra Nittle | Jun 17, 2026 | Civil Rights, Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Justice, disability rights, doj, education, Health and Human Services, Heritage Foundation, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Linda McMahon, News Analysis, office for civil rights, Project 2025, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., special education, Trump Administration
The Trump administration took aggressive new steps on Tuesday to shut down the Department of Education. Through agreements with other federal agencies, the administration announced that it would give the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) oversight of some of the Education Department’s key functions. HHS will oversee special education and…
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by Jennifer Smith Richards | Dec 24, 2025 | bullying, Civil Rights, DEI, Department of Education, Discrimination, Donald Trump, education, LGBTQ discrimination, LGBTQ Rights, Mass Layoffs, News Analysis, office for civil rights, racial discrimination, Racial Justice, Racism, Trump Administration
In Colorado, students taunted their Black classmates by playing whipping sounds on their cellphones and saying they should be shot “to make us a better race.” The only two Black students in a small district in Ohio were called the N-word by white peers starting on their first day. They got accustomed to hearing slurs like “porch monkey” and being told to go pick cotton. And at a school…
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