President Trump’s order to require proof of citizenship to vote isn’t that far from Jim Crow-era literacy tests, says Bea ...

The federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 was a landmark civil rights law during one of most pivotal ... Crafted in a time of state-sponsored racist violence, poll taxes and literacy tests, the landmark ...

The agency’s anti-discrimination enforcement arm, the office for civil rights, is another division ... Assessment of Educational Progress, the test given periodically to U.S. students known ...

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California and a coalition of other states sued President Trump Thursday over his recent order purporting to radically ...

At a Springfield NAACP forum, school board candidates were asked about achievement gaps, teacher diversity, support for LGBTQ ...

Dramatic cuts at the U.S. Department of Education have left a “skeletal staff” at offices that oversee research and troves of ...

In Louisiana v. Callais, the justices will have a chance to restore the 1965 Voting Rights Act to its original purpose.

Dr. Derek Black: "We as a society will not find our educational promised land anywhere but in our public schools" ...

The truth of the matter is that white Americans, after having nearly wiped out all the Native Americans, never quite got over the outcome of the Civil War, which made it illegal for one person to own ...

Our leaders stupidly argue that federal officials tie too many administrative and bureaucratic strings to education funding.