Illinois education authorities were hit with a federal probe over a mother’s report that her middle-school daughter and other ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling for a plan to shut down of the Education Department, an agency Republicans have talked about closing for decades.

Butch Carter, an Indiana player from 1976-80, was the latest to add his name to the class action lawsuit alleging abuse by former team doctor Brad Bomba.

The Trump administration cut millions of dollars worth of funding to two Ivy League institutions it found in violation of civil rights laws this month.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday the University of Maine System has agreed to keep trans athletes out ...

Maine's Laurel Libby and others have condemned Portland Public Schools superintendent Ryan Scallon for comparing the trans ...

The federal agency handles financial aid for college students, civil rights enforcement and federal funding for marginalized ...

The department's Office for Civil Rights has historically been responsible for enforcing the law credited with the rise of ...

As Maine continues to be a focal point of the sports culture debate about transgender athletes in women’s sports, the state’s ...

Trump signed an executive order that unlawfully attempts to dismantle the US Department of Education and pressures agency officials to violate the civil rights laws the agency is tasked with upholding ...

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has opened investigations into the Illinois Department of ...