Last year, I met Vicki Crawford. She is a remarkable woman whose resilience and determination in the teeth of endless court delays had helped convict Melvyn Little, the man who sexually abused her as ...

Misconduct complaints against educators in Utah public schools have been on the rise during the first months of 2025, representatives of the Utah State Board of Education told legislators on Wednesday ...

When a backlog becomes overloaded, execution collapses. The backlog stops being a planning tool and becomes a liability that ...

The Department of Education (ED) has been forced to double back on its March 2025 decision to lay off hundreds of civil rights employees. In December 2025, the agency called back employees who worked ...

Oregon Senate lawmakers called in officials from the state Department of Education this week to explain why the agency is struggling to clear a backlog of school discrimination complaints despite the ...

For years, Indiana has struggled to clear its stack of untested rape kits. Lawmakers are once again hoping to tackle the problem that leaves victims waiting for justice. House Bill 1413, if passed, ...

Under the Trump administration, hundreds of thousands of student loan borrowers remain stuck in a backlog of applications for an affordable repayment plan or debt forgiveness, a new court filing shows ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Adam Minsky is an attorney and writer focusing on student loans. The Department of Education posted a new update on Monday on ...

While Orange-Osceola State Attorney Monique Worrell is being lambasted by GOP critics for efforts to whittle down a backlog of criminal cases, records show she is following the example of another top ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is grappling with a mounting backlog of school and college discrimination cases, prompting an unusual request from ...

Feb. 2 (Asia Today) --South Korea's nationwide backlog of unresolved criminal cases nearly tripled last year from 2021, with "long-term unresolved" cases rising about eightfold after a 2021 shift in ...