Federal civil rights data holds schools accountable. Under Trump, it's 6 months late

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(Win McNamee / ) For more than 50 years, the Education Department has revealed a host of realities about how students are being treated in every public school across America: which kids are being bullied, which ones are being harassed and which students can access the internet, among...

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