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In a follow-up to the department's Office of Civil Rights' "Dear Colleague" letter, additional letters were sent to 45 schools informing them they were being investigated for their alleged ...

Some groups are new, some are longstanding. Some are local, others national. Over the past two years, they have become vastly more organized, well funded, effective — and criticized.