WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 -- Sen. Bernie Sanders issued the following press release:
According to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, the Trump administration's efforts to illegally dismantle the Education Department wasted up to $38 million by paying investigators at its Office for Civil Rights (OCR) not to work while it dismissed roughly 90% of discrimination complaints from students nationwide without review.
Commissioned by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), and released today by the GAO, the report examines the costs to American students and taxpayers of Trump's attempts to illegally fire nearly 500 dedicated workers at OCR, the agency respon...