Trump Breaks Up Education Dept., Prompting Worries Over Civil Rights

Scritto il 16/06/2026
da Michael C. Bender and Dana Goldstein

Special education programs and the civil rights office will be moved out of the Education Department, the most aggressive move yet by the Trump administration to dismantle the agency.The Education Department will shift duties for its Office for Civil Rights, which for decades has enforced anti-discrimination laws related to school children, to the Justice Department.