by Common Ground | Jan 17, 2025 | Features, January 2025 Special Policy Edition
The U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) plays an important role in special education. It helps to ensure that students with disabilities get an appropriate and equitable education. Through its Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) and its work with other...
by Common Ground | Apr 4, 2024 | April 2024, Courts
The U.S. Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights (OCR) is investigating an Essex County school district to determine whether they discriminated on the basis of race and disability when placing African American students into a self-contained therapeutic...
by Common Ground | Jun 14, 2022 | Capitols
As part of President Joe Biden’s Unity Agenda, the administration has announced a comprehensive strategy to address our nation’s mental health crisis. The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) will solicit public input regarding improvements to the Department’s...
by Common Ground | Nov 12, 2012 | Courts
A federal investigation into whether a large urban school district placed students with disabilities in segregated classrooms has pushed the district to commit to change the ways in which it makes placement decisions. The case involves the 9,500-student school...
by Common Ground | Apr 16, 2012 | Capitols
OCR found that school officials in a Burlington County district illegally required the family of a child with autism to pay for services.In the last two years, federal officials have launched dozens of new probes addressing civil rights issues that previously received...
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