Ron Dong was only 2 years old when his Chinese American parents moved to Coronado, Calif., a change that had been possible only because of a Black couple who defied anti-Asian segregation to rent a house to his family. More than 80 years later, Ron and his younger brother, Lloyd Dong Jr., 81, are carrying…
The Education Department announced investigations into six more colleges and universities on Tuesday, adding to a growing list of institutions that the agency is examining over complaints of campus discrimination. The schools named by the department were Stanford, the University of California-Los Angeles, the University of California-San Diego, the University of Washington-Seattle, Rutgers University in…
WASHINGTON — The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights logged a record number of discrimination complaints in the past year, the latest indicator of how the social and political strife roiling the country is reverberating in the nation’s schools. Nearly 19,000 complaints were filed to the office in the last fiscal year — between Oct.…
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Thursday proposed new rules governing how schools must respond to sex discrimination, rolling back major parts of a Trump administration policy that narrowed the scope of campus sexual misconduct investigations and cementing the rights of transgender students into law. The proposal would overhaul an expansive rule finalized under former…