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Tyler Kingkade

School Backs Down From Expulsion Threat Against Sexual Assault Survivor

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 06.07.2013 | College
Read More: Title IX, University of North Carolina, Unc Honor Court Landon Gambill, Landen Gambill Honor Court, Unc Honor Court Landen Gambill, Unc Sexual Assault, Landen Gambill, Holden Thorp, Landen Gambill Unc Sexual Assault, Sexual Assault in College, UNC Chapel Hill, Office of Civil Rights, Clay Turner, College News

After an external review, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill announced Thursday that it dropped a school honor court charge against Landen G...

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Campus-Based Sexual Assault Coalition Fights Back

Nina Flores | Posted 05.12.2013 | College
Read More: Conversations on Campus, Sexual Violence, Campus Crime, Occidental College, Clery Act, Campus Safety, Office of Civil Rights, Sexual Assault, College News
Nina Flores

A student-faculty coalition at Occidental College in Los Angeles is gaining national attention for standing up to campus administrators in the wake of yet another example of colleges and universities across the country mishandling reports of sexual assault.

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Joy Resmovits

Students With Disabilities Have School Sports Rights, Obama Administration Declares

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 02.01.2013 | Impact
Read More: Education News, Students With Disabilities Sports Participation, Children With Disabilities, Education, Special Education, Rehabilitation Act, Arne Duncan, Disabled Students Sports, Ocr, Sports Participation, Obama Administration, Students Disabilities Sports, Obama on Students With Disabilities, Office of Civil Rights, Athletics for Students With Disabilities, Impact News

When Kareem Dale, now a special advisor to President Barack Obama, was in high school, all he wanted to do was wrestle. But as a student who was parti...

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ACLU on Campus Protests Against Israel

David Moshman | Posted 02.15.2013 | College
Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Anti-Semitism, Aclu, Jews, First Amendment, Department of Education, University of California Berkeley, Freedom of Expression, Free Speech, Office of Civil Rights, Harassment, Hostile Environment, College News
David Moshman

At the intersection of equality and liberty lie many hard cases that require careful consideration of complex evidence and subtle balancing of competing rights. But this is not one of them. If I were the OCR I would listen to the ACLU and uphold free expression at Berkeley.

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Office Of Civil Rights To Investigate Missouri High School's Offensive 'Senior List'

Posted 11.05.2012 | Home
Read More: Ruth Ahlemeier, Burn Book, Missouri Schools, High School Bullying, Slut-Shaming, Ladue High School Senior List, Slut Shaming, Office of Civil Rights, Department of Education Office of Civil Rights, School Bullying, Ladue High School, Home News

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights will investigate a complaint leveled by a parent regarding Ladue Horton Watkins High Schoo...

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Cost Of Educating Students With Special Needs Disproportionately Left To Traditional Public Schools

AP | CHRISTINA HOAG | Posted 08.20.2012 | Home
Read More: Public Schools, Pennsylvania Schools, Los Angeles Schools, School Enrollment, Ohio Schools, Special Needs Kids, Students With Special Needs, Special Needs Children, Partnership to Uplift Communities, Special Needs Students, Special Education, Charter Schools, Children With Special Needs, Office of Civil Rights, California Schools, School Budgets, Video, Home News

LOS ANGELES -- The high cost of educating students with special needs is disproportionately falling on traditional public schools as other students in...

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Chinese Students: We Were Transferred To Poor-Performing School To Boost Scores

Posted 08.01.2012 | Home
Read More: Mills High School, Poor-Performing Schools, San Mateo, Department of Education, Immigrant Students, Low-Performing Schools, Student Discrimination, Chinese Students, San Mateo Union High School District, San Mateo California, California Schools, Failing Schools, Office of Civil Rights, Capuchino High School, Asian Students, Video, Home News

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights has launched an investigation into allegations that the San Mateo Union High School District...

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Top U.S. High School Hit With Civil Rights, Discrimination Suit

Posted 07.25.2012 | Home
Read More: Civil Rights Lawsuit, Department of Education, Virginia Schools, Black Students, Minority Students, Alexandria Virginia, Gifted Programs, Gifted Students, Slideexpand, Office of Civil Rights, Naacp, Discrimination in Schools, School Discrimination, Bv-Politics, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Coalition of the Silence, Thomas Jefferson High School, School Civil Rights, Underrepresented Students, Hispanic Students, Home News

The Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, a prestigious Alexandria, Va. high school, has been hit with a federal civil rights lawsu...

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Feds Open Civil Rights Cases on Tucson Schools Under Pedicone's Latino Crackdown: "Sheriff Arpaio of American Schools?"

Jeff Biggers | Posted 07.08.2012 | Home
Read More: Office of Civil Rights, Education, Department of Education, Latino, Tucson, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Schools, John Pedicone, TUSD Book Ban, Book Banning, Tusd, Home News
Jeff Biggers

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights has opened investigations into possible violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act in Tucson. Not that TUSD has bothered to inform the district's taxpayers of the investigation.

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Joy Resmovits

Officials Attack School-To-Prison Pipeline At School Justice Conference

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.13.2012 | Home
Read More: Education News, School Discipline, Judith Kaye, Education, Russlynn Ali, Teacher Pay Gap, Education Department, Black Students, Achievement Gap, Education Disparity, Office of Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Hispanic Students, Home News

Jakayla Ivory, a St. Louis high-school student convicted of second-degree assault, likely would have gotten two years in jail. Instead, she went to sc...

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Are Black Students In LA Racially Profiled?

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 03.06.2012 | Los Angeles
Read More: School Discipline, LA Black Students LA Men of Color, Latino Students LA, Achievement Gap, Black Suspension Rates, Los Angeles Men of Color, Los Angeles Suspension, Office of Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Education, Education Department, LA Suspension, Los Angeles Black Students, Education Disparity, Los Angeles News

If you are a black student in Los Angeles, you are almost three times more likely to be suspended than if you are any other race, according to new dat...

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Joy Resmovits

Black, Hispanic Students Face More Suspensions

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.06.2012 | Home
Read More: Education News, School Discipline, Education, Teacher Pay Gap, Education Department, Black Students, Achievement Gap, Education Disparity, Office of Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Hispanic Students, Home News

Minority students have less access to advanced courses, more inexperienced teachers and face tougher disciplinary consequences than their counterparts...

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Title IX and the Death of Free Speech at Yale

Nathaniel Zelinsky | Posted 07.19.2011 | College
Read More: College Students, Russlynn Ali, Department of Education, Title IX, College News, Yale University, Obama Administration, Higher Education, Office of Civil Rights, Yale, College News
Nathaniel Zelinsky

Yale's Dean Mary Miller's precedent in banning the DKE fraternity for creating a "hostile" environment with its boorish chants raises troubling questions. The willingness to ban "hostile" speech is antithetical to a commitment to free expression for all.

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