Education Department secrecy erodes civil‑rights oversight

ProPublica sued the U.S. Education Department after four FOIA requests seeking records about the Office for Civil Rights’ investigations were not produced. The complaint alleges the office has removed public lists of open cases and cloaked its work under Secretary Linda McMahon, creating an accountability gap for claims of race, disability and gender discrimination in schools. — If a federal civil‑rights enforcer refuses to publish or release investigative records, affected students and the public lose recourse and trust, turning enforcement into a politicized, unaccountable process.