Safeguarding Access and Protection: A Blueprint for Restoring the Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education

The OCR Alumni Collective created these documents to provide broad information to the public and to parties in litigation against ED challenging the current Administration’s attacks on OCR and ED as a whole. The full document, and its summary, highlight the mission of OCR; its formation; its responsibilities for investigating, redressing, and monitoring compliance with the laws it enforces; how it coordinates with and supports other offices that are part of ED to accomplish this work; and the impacts of cuts to OCR. In addition, because the OCR Alumni Collective believes that the strongest and most immediate possible intervention by the courts is necessary to protect and restore OCR, this document provides several possible remedial strategies to ensure that the actions of the current Administration do not undermine OCR’s mission.