The US Department of Education has called the US Education Department, the US Education Department, annulling more than half of the offices and their families, overturned one of their main tasks.
Civil rights complaints in schools and colleges were mainly investigated through ten regional foreign opportunities in the country. Now there will be five.
It was learned that the office was closed to the locations in the office, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, New York, Pharsisco and San Francisco and San Francisco, Phrancisco and San Francisco. Offices will stay in Atlanta, Denver, Kansas City, Seattle and Washington, DC
OCR is one of the largest guards of the 1964 civil rights law investigating thousands of discrimination allegations every year. Includes discrimination for disability, race and sex.
“This is devastating for our American education and students. This will serve the most sensitive education for ourselves in a strong, and will continue to work for many,” Katie Dullum, Deputy Director of OCR last Friday. “The impact is feeling well outside the transition period.”
The Department of Education did not meet the desires of Propublic for comment.
In total, about 4,000 employees of the education department will start on March 9 and be placed on administrative leave, starting in March 9 and be placed on administrative leave, starting on administrative leave.
The civil rights department had about 550 employees, and on Tuesdays, on Tuesdays, will leave about half of the education department with other march.
At least 243-year-old union employee of OCR was laid. The Federal Student Assistance Department, which provides a grant and credit for college students, the employee, which represents 326 units, the idea of ​​a department consisting of any division.
On average, every OCR lawyer who examines the complaints is appointed approximately 60 events at a time. Recalling complaints over the years, the President has increased further from Donald Trump and A monthly freezer was applied in the agency’s civil rights.
Former presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, Catherine Lhamon, who neglected OCRs, said: “The rest is a shell that cannot work.”
Civil rights investigators will now be “almost impossible” to resolve discriminatory complaints.
“Part of the work of OCR is physically. As part of the investigation, we are going to school, we see the playground, the main lawyer for OCR, the main lawyer for the OCR, who speaks in anonymity. “We are looking at the shockball and baseball fields.
OCR examined about 12,000 complaints when Trump started office. The largest share of the expected complaints – about 6,000 – departmental information was associated with the students with disabilities who felt the school treatment or unfairly rejected or unfairly rejected.
Trump since the office, Changed attention. The office opened a large number of “aimedists” for an unusual extent to start without complaints. It is associated with the participation of transgender athletes in women’s sports and anti-Semitism that combat discrimination against white disciples.
Traditionally, students and families apply to OCR after feeling worried about their school districts. The process is free, which can still help families who allow a lawyer to conduct a claim.
When OCR finds evidence of discrimination, change a school district or college policy or require a student to provide services to a student or to provide services to a student in school. Sometimes the office controls institutions to make sure they are eligible.
“OCR will not be investigated again. This will not happen. They will not happen. They will not be employees.” “It was an extremely time and labor intensive.”
The department made a press release that all units in the department affected. Education Statistics of Education Statistics collecting information about the health of the nation’s schools National Education Center, all deleted.
The Secretary of Education Linda McMahon called “an important step to restore the greatness of the US education system.” In addition to 1300, 600 employees accepted voluntary resignations on Tuesday, or accepted the explosions in the last seven weeks according to the department.
Trump and his conservative allies have been a long time, the department wanted to close with Trump that calls a “big job”. However, the president did not try to do this before, and the closure of the department will require the approval of the Congress.
Instead, the Trump agency is significantly weaker. On the same day, the congress confirmed McMaho as an educational secretary, and the department sent an e-mail called “Last Mission”.
Education Department Workers will close all the agencies of the country’s agency offices at 6 o’clock for “security terms” and close on Wednesday. This caused many employees to assumptions that this work came.
Then, after the end of the work day, the worked workers began to receive emails recognized by the “difficult workforce”.
Emails also went to all sections: “This email serves as a notification that has been canceled with all positions within the unit of your organizational unit.”
– Jodi S. Cohen and Jennifer Smith Richards, Propublic
This story was originally published Propublicica.
