If the Office of Civil Rights Is Removed from the Department of Education, Where Should It Go?

Neal McCluskey

As discussion about ending the US Department of Education continues, we now look at where to put civil rights enforcement, covered by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), if the department is dismantled. A few days ago, Andrew Gillen did the same thing with student loans.

Importantly, unlike student lending and almost everything else the Department of Education does, under the 14th Amendment civil rights enforcement is a constitutionally legitimate federal function.