Facing a backlog of school discrimination cases, the U.S. Department of Education has asked hundreds of employees it fired months ago to temporarily return to work.
A Dec. 5 email obtained by USA TODAY shows the agency ordered a significant portion of staffers in the Office for Civil Rights to come back later this month. In the “return to duty” directive, officials acknowledged they’re facing a sizable caseload of civil rights complaints, and they underscored a need to utilize every resource at the government’s disposal to work through them.
The agency said the request applies to roughly 250 workers who’ve been on administrative leave for months amid legal challenges to their March firings. Julie Hartman, the Education Department’s press secretary for legal affairs, stressed there still aren’t any plans to fully rehire those workers permanently.


HOAs make my fucking blood boil and I don’t even live with one. The whole idea that some fuck stick with a house near you could tell you how to keep your property, and it’s legal, is absolutely bonkers to me!
Yet another bog standard, widespread, common feature of US society that is just obviously a scam, that everyone hates, yet nothing ever changes, even though HOAs fairly often get actually outed and prosecuted for fraud.
We are a nation of morons, in love with narcissists, confused as to why they keep abusing us.
Racism leads to a lot of crazy shit