Rachel M. Perera

That’s the heart of the question that’s being debated—although it’s not being debated in explicit terms—does racial discrimination exist?

It’s hard to imagine that these staffing cuts won’t have the effect of curtailing the department’s ability to carry out their core functions.

Repurposing OCR’s work to terminate federal funding for these more expansive interpretations of current federal law is going to be an uphill battle.

Rachel Perera explained that executive orders taking aim at federal workers could spur concern, prompting many of the Education Department’s 4,000 staffers to leave, weakening expertise...

Rachel Perera spoke to Education Week about the ways Trump can weaken the Department of Education.

On issues that I worry about…[using civil-rights laws to target diversity, equity, and inclusion policies at universities] is at the top.

A second Trump administration could not simply dismantle the Department of Education with the authority of the executive alone. They would need Congress to act. It’s a policy proposal..."

“Opponents of suspension bans often claim that these reforms will lead to increases in misbehavior and disruption—a claim that hasn’t borne out in the data.”

“Students struggled coming back to schools and they missed a lot of key in-person time where they learned socializing aspects of school, how to be in school, how to sit still in seats,..."

“This is not the type of incident that is typically the inciting incident of a Department of Ed investigation like this…”