{"id":118,"date":"2025-03-18T10:03:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T14:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/?p=118"},"modified":"2025-03-18T10:03:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T14:03:37","slug":"how-to-respond-to-department-of-education-investigations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/2025\/03\/18\/how-to-respond-to-department-of-education-investigations\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Respond to Department of Education Investigations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Department of Education recently announced two sets of investigations stemming from the administration\u2019s application of the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s 2023 decision in\u00a0<em>Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard<\/em>. The announced investigations are focused on institutional compliance within the context of the Supreme Court opinion and subsequent guidance from the Department of Education in the February 14, 2025, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.gov\/media\/document\/dear-colleague-letter-sffa-v-harvard-109506.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dear Colleague Letter<\/a>.\u201d Based on our experience and the regulatory requirements, institutions subject to an investigation should carefully evaluate the scope of the investigation or inquiry, consider the legal rights and remedies available to OCR, as well as identify the procedural framework, including, but not limited to, agency hearings and appeals. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/best_practices_when_responding_department_education_investigations_0325.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/best_practices_when_responding_department_education_investigations_0325.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Read the full <em>Alert <\/em>on the Duane Morris website. <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Education recently announced two sets of investigations stemming from the administration\u2019s application of the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s 2023 decision in\u00a0Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. The announced investigations are focused on institutional compliance within the context of the Supreme Court opinion and subsequent guidance from the Department of Education in the February &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/2025\/03\/18\/how-to-respond-to-department-of-education-investigations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to Respond to Department of Education Investigations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28,27,18,29],"ppma_author":[5],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-department-of-education","tag-doe","tag-fca","tag-investigations"],"authors":[{"term_id":5,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/falseclaimsact\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}