Education Department layoffs gut its civil rights office, leaving discrimination cases in limbo. The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs, effectively gutting an office that already faced a backlog of thousands of complaints from students and families across the nation.Among a total of more than 1,300 layoffs announced Tuesday were roughly 240 in the department’s Office for Civil Rights,

<p><strong>Education Department layoffs gut its civil rights office, leaving discrimination cases in limbo. </strong>The Education Department&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/education-department-civil-rights-special-education-antisemitism-764c1298a4ba856ce793249cdb57e6d6">civil rights branch</a>&nbsp;is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration&rsquo;s layoffs, effectively gutting an office that already faced a backlog of thousands of complaints from students and families across the nation.Among a total of more than&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/education-department-layoffs-job-cuts-linda-mcmahon-ce9f6a8a63972aede0d8fbdf057ab788">1,300 layoffs</a>&nbsp;announced Tuesday were roughly 240 in the department&rsquo;s Office for Civil Rights,</p>

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Education Department Layoffs Gut Its Civil Rights Office

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