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Week in Review: Major Announcements from the Department of Education, Challenges to Anti-DEI Actions, Board Member Reinstatement...

Franczek P.C. on 3/11/2025

We reported last week that the pace of executive orders coming from the new presidential administration had begun to slow. While, overall, the rate does still appear to be slowing, this week has been a notable one....more

A Practitioner-Focused Framework for Civil Rights Compliance

TNG Consulting on 2/4/2025

On January 14, 2025, the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a resolution agreement with the University of Washington following a Title VI complaint of alleged discrimination and harassment based...more

Embracing the In-House Culture Assessment

TNG Consulting on 12/12/2024

Consequent to increasing sectarian tensions on campus, ATIXA members tell us they are seeing a rise in anonymous racist, homophobic, transphobic, Islamophobic, pro/anti-Israel messages, and other discriminatory comments...more

OCR Update: Shared Ancestry and Ethnicity Discrimination Guidance

Franczek P.C. on 7/12/2024

In recent months, OCR has reached resolution agreements with a school district and two universities after investigating complaints of discrimination and harassment based on ancestry or ethnicity, including allegations...more

Department of Education Issues Dear Colleague Letter as Student Protests Continue

BCLP on 5/10/2024

Colleges and universities around the country have been dealing with increasingly violent and contentious student protests in recent months. Many have had to deal with student, parent, faculty, donor, and public criticisms...more

U.S. Department of Education Guidance and Resources about Addressing Discrimination and Harassment on the Basis of National Origin

Husch Blackwell LLP on 2/13/2024

The Biden Administration has made concentrated efforts to address the rise in reports of antisemitic, Islamophobic, and other hate-based or bias-based incidents in schools and on college campuses since the beginning of the...more

OCR Releases Resource on School Re-openings and Student Rights

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC on 5/18/2021

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) has published an extended Q&A designed to support educational institutions in protecting student rights and interests within the context of both virtual and...more

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