Chris Murphy Grills Sec. McMahon on Discrimination Claims in the OCR: ‘How Do You Defend That?’

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MURPHY: “You're saying you were trying to figure out how to better resolve cases. You resolved not a single case in Connecticut in 2025. I mean, how do you how do you defend that? Not a single child in Connecticut got a positive resolution from the Department of Education for their discrimination claims -- 70 of them had disability claims. How do you defend that?”
MCMAHON: “Well, it is very difficult when I'm trying to address those particular issues, except to know that those things were happening. And we are looking forward to make sure that they stop happening.”
MURPHY: “But you fired half the department.”
MCMAHON: “But that is hindsight. What we are doing now --“
MURPHY: “What does that mean?”