Federal agencies are now taking on oversight of the nation’s special education system and enforcement of school civil rights laws, marking a shift in responsibility away from the U.S. Department of Education. The move signals a restructuring of how compliance with educational rights and protections for students with disabilities is monitored. Critics may question whether decentralizing authority will maintain consistency in enforcement across the country. The change could reshape accountability in schools for both educational standards and civil rights compliance.
The U.S. Department of Education has begun outsourcing responsibility for overseeing the nation’s sprawling special education system and enforcing civil rights law in schools to other federal agencies ...
