The Education Department has started dismissing hundreds of civil rights complaints that investigators deem onerous or unnecessary.
The New York Times reported that the Education Department’s Civil Rights Office has begun dismissing the cases under a new provision implemented as part of a plan to revise the agency’s manual for handling civil rights complaints.
The revisions are intended to help the department better manage its docket, Liz Hill, a spokeswoman for the Education Department, told the Times.
The provision allows the Office of Civil Rights to throw out cases that signal “a pattern of complaints previously filed with O.C.R. by an individual or a group against multiple recipients,” or that place “an unreasonable burden on O.C.R.’s resources.”
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