Lawsuit seeks to stop Education Department from firing civil rights investigators and lawyers

A federal lawsuit seeks to stop the president and Secretary Linda McMahon from carrying out the mass firing of civil rights investigators and lawyers.

Two parents and a national disability rights group jointly filed the class-action lawsuit.

It alleges that decimating the department’s Office for Civil Rights will leave the agency unable to handle complaints of discrimination at school.

The Department of Education has said it would still meet its legal obligations.

The Demopolis City Schools district has said it barred Carter after a confrontation with a white staff member.

But Carter has said a white parent who had a similar confrontation wasn’t banned, leading her to believe that the district punished her because of her advocacy.

The other parent, identified by the initials A.W. , filed a complaint with OCR alleging their child’s school failed to respond properly to sexual assault and harassment by a classmate.