The Education Department is opening fewer sexual violence investigations as Trump dismantles it

Bogdan Hofbauer

WASHINGTON (AP) — Before President Donald Trump’s administration started dismantling the Education Department , the agency served as a powerful enforcer in cases of sexual violence at schools and universities. It brought the weight of the government against schools that mishandled sexual assault complaints involving students. That work is quickly fading away. The department’s Office for Civil Rights was gutted in Trump’s mass layoffs last year, leaving half as many lawyers to investigate

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