In US public schools, linguistic diversity is growing rapidly with an increasing number of students who are learning English. Federal and state policies lay the foundation for language acquisition through (re)classification processes for English Learners (ELs). However, the classification process runs the risk of establishing separate services for…

Migration over the U.S. southwest border in the past decade has been composed of growing numbers of undocumented and asylum-seeking families and children from Mexico and Central America, with larger increases starting in fiscal year (FY) 2017. By U.S. law, states must provide education to all children, regardless of immigration status. Yet…

In FY 2016, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) promoted equity and excellence in education through conducting investigations and monitoring schools under resolution agreements, promoting greater understanding of how OCR interprets and enforces civil rights laws through the release of policy guidance, providing technical assistance and outreach to…

For decades, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has enforced civil rights in our nation's preschool through 12th grade (P-12) and post-secondary schools, which now serve almost 80 million students annually. In Fiscal Year 2015, the OCR promoted excellence in education through conducting investigations and monitoring schools under resolution…

In January, 2014, the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Office for Civil Rights in the Department of Education (ED) issued a joint "Dear Colleague Letter" to K-12 schools. The topic discussed in their joint letter is whether administrators are punishing minority children more harshly than white children for…

In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina displaced the largest number of public school children ever affected by any disaster. Approximately 370,000 children, including 15,000 Latino/Hispanic children from Louisiana, were scattered throughout the 48 U.S. states (Landrieu, 2010; Louisiana Department of Education, 2004). Although much of the media…

Address delivered by the former chief, Office for Civil Rights, Department of Health, Education and Welfare to the School Desegregation Seminar, Emory University, 1970. Anecdotes in a personal style are used to recount the efforts made to convince Secretary Robert Finch that he continue the desegregation effort. (DM)

Ten years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Federal Government's enforcement effort in the desegregation of State systems of higher education is just now beginning to get down to cases. An analytical account of recent developments by a newspaperman who has been a close observer of the college scene. (Editor/JF)

Ten years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Federal Government's enforcement effort in the desegregation of State systems of higher education is just now beginning to get down to cases. Provides the personal recollections and views of the Federal Government's first civil-rights officer for higher education. (Editor/JF)

THIS REPORT PROVIDES ANSWERS TO A VARIETY OF QUESTIONS REGARDING FEDERAL SCHOOL DESEGREGATION POLICY UNDER TITLE VI OF THE 1964 CIVIL RIGHTS ACT. IT PRESENTS THE "REVISED STATEMENT OF POLICIES FOR SCHOOL DESEGREGATION PLANS," WHICH WAS ISSUED IN MARCH 1966 BY THE U. S. OFFICE OF EDUCATION. THE STATEMENT SPECIFICALLY DESCRIBES THE…

A chronology of action arising from a 1970 lawsuit brought against the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund is presented. (MLW)

Statements released by the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education summarizing the office's findings on the states' progress in meeting goals set out in their desegregation plans are presented. (MLW)

This report on the efforts of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) to comply to Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act is based primarily on Commission staff work undertaken during the Spring and Summer of 1968. Interviews were conducted with staff members in HEW's Office for Civil Rights in Washington, and in the Atlanta and…

The first section of this document narrates Southern resistance to integration from 1964 to 1967, and the second relates the weakening of civil rights legislation through the influence of Southern Congressmen and other moderates in Congress. A detailed discussion of the Macon County and Jefferson County (Alabama) school desegregation decisions is…