{"title":"Is OCR now no-CR? An enforcement office at a standstill","authors":"Eric Lyerly","doi":"10.1002/dhe.70179","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>For decades, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights has been the front door for students facing discrimination. When a student was denied accommodations or denied meaningful access, OCR was where families turned — often because they could not afford a private lawsuit. In 2025, that door largely stopped working.</p>","PeriodicalId":100378,"journal":{"name":"Disability Compliance for Higher Education","volume":"32 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2026-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Disability Compliance for Higher Education","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dhe.70179","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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For decades, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights has been the front door for students facing discrimination. When a student was denied accommodations or denied meaningful access, OCR was where families turned — often because they could not afford a private lawsuit. In 2025, that door largely stopped working.