Ep. 78 - March 29, 2017: New Role for the Office for Civil Rights?

Marty West talks with Shep Melnick about how the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights works and what is likely to change under the Trump administration. Shep Melnick, the Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. Professor of American Politics at Boston College, is the author of a new post on the EdNext blog entitled “How civil rights enforcement got swept into the culture wars, and what a new administration can do about it.” You can read it at http://educationnext.org/how-civil-rights-enforcement-got-swept-into-the-culture-wars-and-what-a-new-administration-can-do-about-it/