The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights can no longer fulfill its legal duties due to severe funding cuts, staffing reductions, and office closures, a motion for preliminary injunction alleged this month in an ongoing lawsuit against the Trump administration.

There were 600 open investigations in New England when Trump took office, roughly half of which are in Massachusetts.

The Garrison School is part of a special education district that had students arrested at the highest rate in the country. It had pledged to change how it disciplines kids after a ProPublica-Chicago Tribune investigation and subsequent federal probe.

The Department of Homeland Security’s oversight arm opened an investigation into the controversial arrest of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil only days before officials working for that office were placed on administrative leave,

AG Kwame Raoul leads 20 attorneys general in urging a court to stop the shutdown of three DHS civil rights offices.