The Office for Civil Rights logged more than 18,000 civil rights complaints in a single fiscal year — yet the Trump administration is now restricting the agency from demanding the systemic reforms that have been the backbone of racial equity enforcement since 1964. Under the new posture, schools can face a complaint, settle an individual case, and walk away without ever addressing the underlying pattern of discrimination. The shift mirrors Reagan-era OCR rollbacks that civil rights advocates spent decades reversing — and this time it arrives by executive order on Day One.