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13 Dec 2023
A few months of reporting, heartbreaking phone calls with sexual assault survivors, discussions with @usedgov, and hundreds of court documents later, K-12 Dive published its analysis today of how schools have passed the buck on Title IX responsibilities. k12dive.com/news/title-ix-inâŚ
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"K-12 Dive filed another request for records in January 2026 and is awaiting a response on their release. DHS has also not responded to multiple requests for comment."
Great effort from @NaazModan to give some numbers to the story.
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Feb 7
Did you know that prior to January, 2025, schools and churches were on a list of "sensitive areas" off-limits for immigration enforcement?
DHS changed the policy, which is why we see controversial actions today.
@NaazModan has been tracking the activities on school grounds:
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Feb 11
K-12 Dive analyzed all the OCR cases resolved in 2025 in K-12 available on the USED's database. Here's one finding: no settled resolved sexual assault/harassment cases, despite President Trump's promise to protecting women/girlsâ rights in education. k12dive.com/news/trumps-ocr-âŚ
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In the meantime, it did expedite Title IX investigations and proposed resolution agreements to curb transgender studentsâ access to school facilities and athletic teams aligning with their gender identity.
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In response to its lack of assault/harassment cases, USED said that it "has restored commonsense safeguards against sexual violence by returning sex-based separation in intimate facilities.â âOCR is and will continue to safeguard the dignity and safety of our nationâs students."
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17 Apr 2025
After leaving @EdNCES with almost no staff, says NAEP "is a critical tool" that @Linda_McMahon is "committed to providing states with." Reading and math will continue as planned for 2026, but USED is silent on civics and U.S. history that was also scheduled for 2026.
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17 Apr 2025
Former NCES employees indeed told K-12 Dive that NAEP will likely be left as a skeleton, testing only what's required and foregoing testing on other important subject. One employee said "new administration wants to do the bare minimum." k12dive.com/news/Education-DâŚ
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24 Mar 2025
USED is telling Maine and its schools to define âfemalesâ and âmalesâ by the production of âeggsâ and âspermâ â and telling MDOE to publicize that on its website â or lose fed funding. It would also require the state to apologize to its cisgender students. k12dive.com/news/ocr-to-mainâŚ
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20 Mar 2025
Trump ordered Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to âtake all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education,â marking the boldest push from the president to shut down the agency since its establishment over four decades ago. k12dive.com/news/trump-issueâŚ
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12 Mar 2025
7 offices of the EDâs OCR have closed and hundreds of staff have been let go, former employees have confirmed. The offices oversaw half of the nationâs states, impacting nearly 60,000 public schools and over 30 million K-12 students. k12dive.com/news/half-of-ocrâŚ
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12 Mar 2025
Combined, the offices had over 6,000 investigations open as of January. âThe Department of Education has turned its back on civil rights in schools,â said Catherine Lhamon, who led OCR under the Biden administration.
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21 Aug 2024
The DNC is just Coachella for Poli-Sci majors
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18 Jul 2024
The biggest Title IX regs nightmare you havenât read about yet:
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23 Feb 2024
New: 2023 federal OCR complaints outpaced the 2022 record high. Last fiscal year, 12,709 out of of 19,201 complaints were related to K-12. And 2024's complaints show no signs of slowing down.
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23 Feb 2024
Lhamon attributes some increases to current events, like the Supreme Court admissions case and Title VI cases after Oct. 7. Some of these numbers are expected to be released as part of OCR's annual report, which is usually released around late spring or summer.
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7 Feb 2024
Will the U.S. Supreme Court weigh in on another high-profile education case this term? That is seeming more likely. Justices have deliberated multiple times in the past month whether to accept a closely watched case on K-12 admissions policies.
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18 Jan 2024
The massacre at Robb Elementary could have been stopped sooner, were it not for the "cascading failures" of law enforcement â including its lack of coordination with the school, according to a U.S. Department of Justice report released today. k12dive.com/news/doj-report-âŚ
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13 Dec 2023
A few months of reporting, heartbreaking phone calls with sexual assault survivors, discussions with @usedgov, and hundreds of court documents later, K-12 Dive published its analysis today of how schools have passed the buck on Title IX responsibilities. k12dive.com/news/title-ix-inâŚ
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14 Dec 2023
Read K-12 Diveâs investigation into how school districts pass the buck on Title IX responsibilities to law enforcement or other outside parties in cases of sexual harassment and assault, violating civil rights requirements: k12dive.com/news/title-ix-inâŚ
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14 Dec 2023
Students report not being able to access their Title IX coordinator, being denied interim support, feelings of depression and isolation, and more.
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