A recent report by the General Accounting Office (G A O) found that complaint to the The U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights brought by Asian Americans than those from those brought by other minority groups. A higher proportion of complaints by Asian Americans reviewed by the GAO concerned college-admissions issues. College-admissions cases typically take longer to resolve. (Seven of the thriteen cases reviewed by the GAO took 26 or more months to be resolved.)
The O.C.R. also found Asian Americans' complaints to be valid more often than cases brought by other groups.
The civil-rights office has made changes to speed up its investigations and reviews andreduced its backlog of cases.
Sources:
General Accounting Office report on Education Department investigations of civil-rights complaints by Asian-American students.
Mary Geraghty "U.S. Lags in Resolving Bias Complaints by Asian Americans" The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 05, 1996, p A39.
Caroline Whitbeck