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Akkari, A., & Radhouane, M. (2022). Multicultural education in the United States. In A. Akkari and M. Radhouane (Eds). Intercultural approaches to education (pp. 65-78). Springer.
The authors explain the historical evolution of multicultural education and its influence of policy and practices in PK-12 education.

Learning Policy Institute. (2020). The federal role in advancing education equity and excellence.
This policy brief describes the attempts at the federal level to advance education equity and excellence with recommendations for policymakers to address ongoing challenges in these areas.

U.S. Department of Education. (2021, June 15). The federal role in education. https://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/role.html
The role of the federal government in education is concisely described in a historical overview.

Office for Civil Rights (2020). Protecting students with disabilities. U.S. Department of Education. https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/504faq.html#introduction

Office for Civil Rights (2021). Title IX and sex discrimination. U.S. Department of Education. https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/tix_dis.html

Office of Elementary & Secondary Education (2022). Educators. U. S. Department of Education.

Office of English Language Acquisition (2021, June 1). Home Page. U.S. Department of Education.

Rand Corporation (n.d.). Education and literacy.
RAND research on early childhood, K-12, and higher education covers issues such as assessment and accountability, choice-based and standards-based reform, school leadership, teacher effectiveness, technology, and vocational training.

U.S. Department of Education. (n.d.). Laws & governance. https://www2.ed.gov/policy/landing.jhtml?src=image

U.S. Department of Education. (2020, June 14). Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). https://www2.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/essa/index.html

U.S. Department of Education. (2022, February 16). Age discrimination: Overview of the law. https://www2.ed.gov/policy/rights/guid/ocr/ageoverview.html

U.S. Department of Justice. (n.d.). Explore featured topics. https://www.ada.gov/topics/

Alliance for Excellent Education (2016, July). Every Student Succeeds Act primer: Reducing incidents for school discipline.
This resource provides an explanation of reform efforts to address alternatives to the exclusionary discipline.

Office for Civil Rights. (OCR, 2022, February). Providing students with disabilities free appropriate public education during the COVID-19 pandemic and addressing the need for compensatory services under Section 504. Office for Civil Rights.
This resource from the OCR contains an explanation of Section 504 and the services that are to be provided to students as a result of the pandemic.

Office for Civil Rights (OCR, 2021, June). An overview of exclusionary discipline practices in public schools for the 2017-2018 school year. Civil Rights Data Collection, 2017-18 State and National Estimations. U.S. Department of Education.
The data released in this June 2021OCR presentation shows the 2017-2018 national data on exclusionary disciplinary.