WASHINGTON, March 24 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich issued the following news release:
Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) joined U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and 13 other Senate Democrats in urging the Department of Education to reverse its efforts to weaponize the Office of Civil Rights to carry out the Trump administration's ideological agenda.
The senators point to a series of alarming actions taken by the Department of Education, including cases targeting transgender student protections and diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, gutting protections for students in public schools and institutions of higher education, calling attention to the mass firings and lack of investigations into cases al...