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Civil rights fight

BOSTON — The Victim Rights Law Center is suing the U.S. Department of Education in federal court for gutting the Office of Civil Rights and closing seven of its 12 offices around the country. The center says the department left a "hollowed-out organization incapable of performing its statutorily mandated functions."

/ April 21, 2025
FILE - The U.S. Department of Education building is seen in Washington, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Read the complaint here.

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