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Office for Civil Rights

The office within the U.S. Department of Education that enforces federal civil rights laws in education.

Also called
OCR
Used in
United States
Topic
Organisations

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Title IX United States
The 1972 federal law that prohibits sex discrimination in education programmes that receive federal funding, including in athletics and responses to sexual harassment.
Section 504 United States
The part of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 that prohibits disability discrimination in programmes that receive federal funding, including public schools.

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