The Trump administration is moving the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) enforcement out of the Department of Education and over to the Justice Department through an interagency agreement.

This is part of the campaign to dismantle the Department of Education: firing staff, closing regional offices, and shipping Education’s work to other agencies.

OCR has to review every complaint it receives. That is how 73 million students get justice when a school discriminates. DOJ’s Civil Rights Division takes a small number of big systemic cases. Students need both offices.

The Trump administration already fired more than half of OCR’s staff and closed more than half of its regional offices. Moving enforcement to DOJ would close the path most families actually use.

This is one of 14 agreements to move at least 148 Education Department programs, including an attempt to send special education work out of the department and to Health and Human Services. Congress created the Department of Education in 1979, and it’s up to Congress to keep these offices where they belong.

Congress must use the FY 2027 spending bill to lock OCR in the Department of Education and shut down every interagency workaround.

Click “Start Writing” to tell Congress to block the interagency agreement and keep the Office for Civil Rights in the Department of Education.