Students, parents call on judge to immediately halt Department of Education's rollback of civil rights investigations Ma
With his handy Sharpy pen--old man Trump screws students and parents some MORE!!
🚨We're fighting to stop @usedgov.bsky.social from abandoning thousands of investigations within its Office for #CivilRights 🚨
The Dept has provided no information for protecting #studentrights. We stand with families in filing a motion to block the unlawful rollback: https://bit.ly/3GFcMlC
https://bsky.app/profile/splcenter.org/post/3logx52735p2s
https://www.splcenter.org/presscenter/students-parents-judge-halt-department-education-rollback-civil-rights-investigations/
Students, parents call on judge to immediately halt Department of Education’s rollback of civil rights investigations
May 5, 2025
Preliminary injunction seeks to reverse actions by Department’s Office for Civil Rights that have abandoned thousands of claims and investigations
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A group of students and parents, represented by the National Center for Youth Law (NCYL), the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates, Inc. (COPAA), filed a motion for preliminary injunction Friday in their lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education seeking to block the Department’s unlawful rollback of civil rights protections for students experiencing discrimination in schools.
The motion, filed in federal district court in Washington, D.C., asks the court to immediately halt the Department’s recent policy decision to abandon thousands of investigations within its Office for Civil Rights (OCR). It follows the filing of the plaintiffs’ amended lawsuit on April 10 and is supported by several sworn declarations from parents and current and former OCR staff that detail the perilous, ongoing harm many plaintiff children and thousands of students across the country continue to face as a result of the discrimination they experience in schools.
“It’s critical that the court intervenes now — both to bring justice to thousands of families who’ve been left with no answers, and to prevent further harm to countless more students across the country,” said David Hinojosa, Co-Director of Litigation at NCYL. “No student should be made to feel they don’t matter.”
“This administration’s continued attempts to destroy the U.S. Department of Education is an attack on every child in our public schools. A key role of the Department of Education is to ensure civil rights protections for all students including children of color and students with disabilities, and oftentimes, especially in southern states, the office for civil rights is the only way students and families can ensure access to their educational rights. We need the courts to intervene immediately to protect our nation’s most vulnerable students,” said Derwyn Bunton, Chief Legal Officer at SPLC. “SPLC is proud to stand by our partners to fight these actions with every tool that we have—alongside educators, students, and communities who understand that education is a fundamental right, not a privilege.”
“An OCR that is solely focused on the distortion of diversity,..................